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The 

Anti-Prohibition 

Manual 


A  Summary  of  Fads  and 

Figures  Dealing  With 

Prohibition 


1918 


PUBLISHED     BY 

The  Publicity  Department  of  the 

NATIONAL  ASSOCIATION  OF 

DISTILLERS   AND 

WHOLESALE  DEALERS 


301  UNITED  BANK  BUILDING 
CINCINNATI,  OHIO 


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Do  You  KnoAV 


That  the  production  and  distribution  of  alco- 
holic beverages  give  employment  directly  to 
1,100,000  persons? 

That  if  those  indirectly  affected  are  included 
the  number  employed  would  reach  1,600,000, 
representing  a  population  of  8,000,000? 

That  the  trades  affected  are  not  only  the  dis- 
tillery and  brewery  workers,  but  countless 
other  allied  industries,  such  as  bottle 
makers,  carpenters,  coopers,  cork  dealers, 
fixture  manufacturers,  lithographers,  prin- 
ters, etc.? 

That  the  liquor  industry  employs  people  at 
wages  superior  to  all  but  a  few  industries 
in  the  country? 

That  those  employed  by  the  liquor  industry 
would,  under  prohibition,  be  compelled  to 
hunt  for  other  lines  of  work  with  the 
ultimate  result  that  the  standard  of  living 
for  all  working  men  must  become  lower? 

That  wage  is  a  commodity;  subject  to  the  law 
of   supply   and  demand? 

That  prohibition  would  strike  the  blow  that 
would  affect  the  jobs  of  1,600,000  workers 
and  jeopardize  the  livelihood  of  all  those 
dependent  upon  them? 


Think  It  Over! 


FOREWORD. 


^V^  EGUN  as  an  attack  on  the  liquor  in- 
|(^«^  dustry,  the  prohibition  question  has 
A1  resolved  itself  into  a  fight  between  the 
•^^  Anti-Saloon  League  and  the  American 
people,  with  the  people  sadly  handicapped 
because  of  their  inability  to  vote  on  the  na- 
tional prohibition  amendment. 

The  Anti-Prohibition  Manual  was  compiled 
to  bring  to  the  people  the  truth  about  Prohi- 
bition, and  furnishes  a  quick  and  easy  means 
of  answering  arguments  offered  by  "dry" 
speakers  and  writers.  An  effort  has  been  made 
to  compile  the  facts  contained,  in  a  concise, 
clear  and  brief  manner.  Some  of  the  matter 
has  been  condensed  for  lack  of  space  and  may 
be  found  in  full  in  issues  of  the  Manual  for 
preceding  years. 

Before  a  person  can  debate  the  liquor  ques- 
tion, he  must  be  educated  regarding  it.  He 
must  know  before  he  can  transmit  knowledge. 

Pinned  down  to  facts,  the  Prohibitionist 
always  is  on  the  losing  side  of  an  argument. 
Within  these  pages  may  be  found  the  answer 
to  practically  every  argument  presented  to 
date  by  the  Anti-Saloon  League  or  other 
Prohibition  forces.  The  statements  should  be 
of  interest  and  value  to  all  who  believe  in  the 
great  American  principle  of  fair  play. 

The  Manual  is  the  only  book  of  its  kind  in 
existence.  It  should  be  the  constant  com- 
panion of  members  of  the  trade,  their  em- 
ployes and  their  friends.  We  ask  that  news- 
paper editorial  writers  keep  it  on  their  desks 
for  reference.  This  little  book  is  our  only 
spokesman  on  the  job  365  days  in  the  year, 

Please  keep  it  and — use  it. 

THE  EDITOR. 


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I  LEGISLATIVE  VOTE  ON  AMENDMENT,  j 

I        Xinc    state    legislatures    had    ratified    the    Xa-  5 

E  tional   Prohibition   Amendment   at  the  time   The  ^ 

g  AIaxual  went  to  press.      To  become  effective  the  = 

E  Amendment  must  be   ratified  within   7  vears,  bv  5 

I  3n  States.                                                          "               '  j 

I  1.     MTSSTSSTPPT—  j 

I              By  the  Senate.  January     8 — Vote,  32  to     5.  i 

5              By  the  House,    January     8— Vote,  93  to     3.  I 

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j  2.     VTRGTXTA—                                     '  | 

I              By  the  Senate,   January  10— Vote,  30  to     8.  | 

I              By  the  House.    January  11— Vote,  84  to   13.  | 

I  3.     KENTUCKY—  | 

I             By  the  Senate,    January  14 — Vote,  27  to    o.  i 

I              By  the  House,     January  14— Vote,  0.')  to  10.  | 

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j  4.     SOUTH  CAROLJXA—  | 

I              By  the  Senate.  ..January  23— Vote,  31  to     6.  W 

I              By  the  House.   January  22— Vote,  ()(>  to  28.  | 

I  5.     XORTH    DAKOTA—  I 

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E              By  the  Senate,  January  25 — Vote,  43  to     2.  = 

=               By  the   House.   January  20— Vote,  9G  to   10.  | 

I  r».     MARVLAXD—  | 

I              By  the  Senate.  Fchniarv  13— Vote,  20  to    7.  | 

I              By  the  House.    February    8— Vote,  58  to  36.  C 

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I  7.     MOXTAXA—  I 

I              Bv  the  Senate,  Februar>-  19— Vote.  37  to    2.  | 

i              By  the  House,   February  19 — Vote,  80  to     7.  E 

I  8.     TEXAS—  I 

I              By  the  Senate,  March         4 — Vote,  15  to     7.  i 

I              By  the  House,    February  28— Vote,  72  to  30.  | 

I  I).     DELAWARE—  | 

I              Bv  the  Senate,  March        18— Vote,  13  to     3.  g 

I              By  the  House,    March        14— Vote,  27  to     •>.  | 

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THE   FOLLOWING  STATES  REJECTED 

STATE-WIDE  PROHIBITION  ON 

A  POPULAR  VOTE. 

Election  Votes  for  Votes  Against  Majority 

States                          Date  Protiibition       Prohibition  Against 

Arkansas  ....Sept.  9,  1912  G9,390        85,358  15,908 

California  ...Nov.  3,1914  355,536  524,781  169,245 

California  ...Nov.  7,  1916  436,639  538,200  101,561 

Iowa    Oct.  15,  1917  214,963  215,625  932 

Maryland  ....Nov.  7, 1916  60,420  114,674  54,254 

Missouri   ....Nov.   8,1910  207,281  425,406  218,125 

Missouri    ....xNov.   7,1916  294.288  416,826  122,538 

Ohio  Nov.  3,  1914  504,177  588.329  84,152 

Ohio  Nov.  2,  1915  484.965  540,-377  55,412 

Ohio  Nov.  6,1917  522,590  523,727  1,137 

Pennsylvania..June  18,  1889  296.617  484,644  188,027 

Texas July  22.  1911  231,096  237,393  6,297 

Vermont   ....Mar.  7,1916  18,503        31,667  13,164 


THE  FOLLOWING  FIFTEEN  STATES  TRIED 

PROHIBITION,   BUT   LATER   RETURNED 

TO   LICENSE   AND   REGULATION. 

Table    Gives   Dates    when    Prohibition    Law   Was 
Adopted  and  Repealed. 

Alabama— 1907-1911. 

Connecticut— 18.54-1872. 

Delaware — 1855-1857. 

Illinois — 1855   (repealed  the  same  year). 

Indiana — 1855  (soon  abandoned). 

Iowa — 1884  (abandoned  in  a  few  years). 

Massachusetts — 1855-1870. 

Michigan— 1853-1876. 

Nebraska— 1855-1861. 

New  Hampshire— 1855-1889. 

New  York— 1855-1857. 

Ohio — 1855   (repealed  the  same  year). 

Rhode  Island— 1853-1863;  also,  1886-1889. 

South  Dakota— 1889-1895. 

Vermont— 1852-1903. 


MAINE  VOTES  "WET." 

IN  1917,  an  attempt  was  made  to  put  over  a  state  law 
preventing  alcoholic  beverages  from  being  imported 
into  >.laine,  which  has  been  "dry"  for  37  years.    The 
shocked    General    Assembly   promptly   voted   down   the 
amendment  by  a  vote  of  100  to  31. 
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THE  i^OLLOWING  STATES  TRIED  AND  RE- 
PUDIATED PROHIBITION  AND  THEN 
REJECTED  LATER  PROPOSALS. 

Table    Gives    Dates    When    Prohibition    Law    Was 
Adopted  and  Rejected. 

Connecticut — 1854-1872;  1889,  rejected  second  pro- 
posal, 

Indiana — 1855,  soon  repealed;  1883,  rejected  second 
proposal. 

Ohio— 1855-1855;  November  3,  1914,  rejected 
second  proposal;  November  3,  1915,  again  defeated 
prohibition;  November  0,  1917,  Ohio  defeats  ainend- 
Tiient  for  third   time. 

Massachusetts — 1855-1870;  1889,  rejected  second 
proposal. 

Rhode  Island— 1853-1863— 1886-1S89. 

Vermont — 1852-1903;  1916,  rejected  second  pro- 
l)Osal. 


Five  States  Vote  In  1918. 

The  question  of  statewide  prohibition  will 
probably  be  voted  upon  in  1918  by  citizens  of 
the  following  states: 

CALIFORNIA 

FLORIDA 

OHIO 

RHODE  ISLAND 

WYOMING 


BEATING  THE  REED  LAW. 

PHILirn,  W.  VA.— Decisions  in  the  Federal  Court 
by    Jiul>;c    -\lston    G.    Dayton    seem    to    restore   to 
\\'est  Virginia  the  provisions  of  the  so-called  quart 
law  despite  the  Reed  amendment. 

Judge  Dayton's  ruling  is  that  persons  carrying  litiuor 
in  their  vehicles  or  walking  across  the  line  with  it  upon 
their  persons  do  not  violate  the  provisions  of  the  law. 
for  the  reason  that  they  do  not  place  their  burdens 
Avithin  the  pale  of  interstate  commerce.  The  court  also 
held  that  persons  bringing  liquor  into  the  state  for 
medicinal  purposes  cannot  be  prosecuted  for  such  action. 
—Cinciimali  Enquirer. 

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DRUNKENNESS   IN    VIRGINIA. 

FULLY  70  per  cent  of  the  drunkenness  in  Richmond 
since  the  prohibition  law  became  effective  on  No- 
vember 1st,  is  caused  by  some  substitute  for 
whiskey,  of  which  there  are  many,  according  to  police 
officers.  On  Saturday  nights  the  number  of  "drunks" 
at  the  stations  have  been  in  some  instances  fully  oO  per 
cent  as  numerous  as  before  prohibition. — Richmond 
(J 'a.)  Times-Dispatch. 

KEEN   STUFF. 

"'nr^HE  government  is  building  a  new  revenue  cutter." 
J^        "What  are  they  going  to  name  it?"- 
"Prohibition.". — Puck. 


The  Prohibitionist 

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in  behalf  of  Pro- 

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reason      why     all 
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hibition. 

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j  What  Is  Behind  Prohlhltionl  | 

S  To  understand  prohibition  we  must  know  what  are  the  = 

=  Sources  of  its  Strength,     These  are :  E 

=  1.     The  belief  that  evils  resulting  from  the  ex-  = 

5  cessive  use  of  liquor  can  be  cured  by  prohibitory  ^ 

=  laws.  = 

=  2.     The  superficial  thinking  that  confuses  Cause  = 

=  with   Coincident,    and   blames   liquor   drinking   for  = 

5  conditions  of  which  it  is  merely  a  Symptom.  ^ 

=  3.     The  Cowardice  of  weaklings  who  want  the  = 

=  government    to    protect    them    against    their    own  S 

=  lack  of   Self-Control.  = 

5  4.     The    attitude    of    Privileged    Interests    that  S 

=  wish  the  people  to  believe  that  liquor  drinking  is       "  s 

=  responsible    for    poverty,    ignorance,    long   hours,  = 

=  low  wages,  child  labor,  and   other   social  evils.  = 

^  5.     The     widespread     systematic     campaign     of  ^ 

5  misleading  and   invented  statistics,   and  gross   ex-  = 

=  aggeration  of  the  injurious  effects  of  liquor,  con-  E 

s  ducted  by   Professional    Reformers.  = 

=  6.     Ambition     of     Politicians     for     Power     and  = 

=  Profit,   through    agitation    of   the   liquor   question.  = 

C  The    Anti-Saloon    League    has    an    Annual    Income    of  = 

S  about  $2,500,000.  | 

5  Where  does  this  enormous  campaign  fund  come  from?  = 

C  A  part  from  misguided  people  who  think  that  they  are  = 

S  furthering  the   worthy    cause   of   temperance.  ^ 

=  The  greater  part  from  the  Privileged  Interests  that  are  = 

S  trying    to    divert    public    attention    from    unjust    economic  = 

5  conditions   by    raising   the    false    issue    of   suppressing   the  ^ 

=  liquor   traffic.  = 

n  The  advocates   of  prohibition  have   manufactured  public  = 

=  sentiment     by     Deliberate     Misrepresentations,     and     Un-  3 

=  founded  Assertions.  = 

g  They    dare    not    tell    the  "people    the    truth    as    to    the  9 

H  failure   of  prohibitory  legislation   to   Diminish  Drinking.  = 

E  Nor  do  they  dare   to   enact   laws   forbidding  the   Use  of  E 

C  liquor.  3 

=  All  that  they  do  is  to  prohibit  its  Manufacture  and  Sale.  E 

E  Why  is  not  the   "Use"   of  liquor  prohibited?  = 

g  Because  a  law  -for  that  purpose  Could  Not  Possibly  Be  5 

E  Enforced,    owing   to   the    ease    with    which    those    desiring  = 

E  liquors  could  manufacture  them   for  their  own  use.  = 

2  Why   do  not   newspaper   editors   expose   the   fallacies    of  Q 

E  prohibition?  E 

E  Either    because    they    are    too     indolent     to    study    the  = 

2  problem,  or  because  they   arc   afraid  to   criticise  the  pow-  D 

=  erful    interests   that   arc    using   prohibition    as   a    means   of  = 

=  side-tracking  the   movement   for  Social  Justice.  = 

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lHI©!n\o  Eilhini  i^©©iL 

— Minister  Extraordinary  heading   Special  United   States 

Commission   to   Russia   in    1917. 
— Secretary  of  War  in   President   McKinley's   Cabinet. 
— Secretary  of  State  in   President  Roosevelt's  Cabinet. 
— United  States  Senator  from  New  York.   1909-1915. 
— Member     Permanent      Court     of     Arbitration     at     the 

Hague,    1910. 
— President   New   York   Constitutional   Convention,    1915. 
— President     Hague    Tribunal     of     Arbitration     between 

Great    Britain,    France,    Spain    and    Portugal,    1913. 

and     admitted     to     be     the     greatest     Constitutional 

Lawyer  in  this  country  today. 

in  discussing  National  Constitutional  Amendments 
which  usurp  the  functions  of  the  States  in  regulating 
their  internal  affairs,  says: 

Our  system  of  government  rests  upon  direct  allegiance  and 
loyalty  to  the  nation,  composed  of  all  the  people  of  all  the 
States,  and  the  ^ower  of  the  nation  as  a  whole  to  control  and 
require  obedience  in  all  things  national,  and  also  upon  the  idea 
of  absolute  liberty  to  the  people  of  each .  separate  State  to 
govern  themselves  in  all  their  local  affairs  according  to  their  own 
free  opinions  and   will. 

Without  assurance  that  both  of  these  ideas,  the  principle  of 
nationality  and  the  principle  of  local  self-government,  would  be 
preserved,  the  Union  would  not  have  been  formed  and  WITH- 
OUT  THEM   IT   CANNOT   BE   MAINTAINED. 

Without  the  power  of  the  nation  we  should  become  the  prey 
of  external  aggression  and  internal  dissension.  WITHOUT 
THE  RIGHT  *  *  *  OF  LOCAL  SELF-GOVERNMENT 
WE  SHOULD  LOSE  THE  BETTER  PART  OF  OUR 
LIBERTY,  THE  LIBERTY  TO  ORDER  OUR  OWN  LIVES 
IN  OUR  HOMES  AND  OUR  OWN  COMMUNITIES 
according    to    our    consciences  *      *      and    our    opinions,    and 

to  be  governed  only,  in  matters  not  national,  by  officers  chosen 
by  ourselves  IN  SUCH  WAYS  AS  WE  CONSIDER  SUITED 
TO  OUR  CONDITIONS. 

THIS  COUNTRY  IS  SO  VAST,  the  difference  in  climate, 
in  physical  characteristics,  in  capacity  for  production,  in  pre- 
dominant industries,  and  in  the  resultant  habits  of  living  and 
thinking,  are  so  great  that  there  are  necessarily  wide  differences 
of  view  as  to  the  conduct  of  lite.  AND  TO  SUBJECT  ANY 
SECTION  OF  THE  COUNTRY  IN  ITS  LOCAL  AFFAIRS 
TO  THE  DICTATION  OF  THE  VAST  MULTITUDE  OF 
VOTERS  LIVING  IN  OTHER  PARTS  OF  THE  COUNTRY 
WOULD  CREATE  A  CONDITION  OF  INTOLERABLE 
TYRANNY,  and  to  use  the  power  of  the  nation  to  bring  about 
that  condition  would  be  to  make  the  nation  an  instrument  of 
tyranny. 

It  is  needless  to  argue  that  THIS  WOULD  ULTIMATELY 
DESTROY  THE  NATION.  It  is  free  adjustment  of  the 
separate  parts  of  our  country,  the  unchecked  opportunity  of 
each  community  to  live  in  its  own  home  according  to  its  own 
opinions  and  wishes,  that  has  made  it  possible  for  us  all  to  unite 
in  maintaining  the  power  of  the  nation  for  all  national   purposes. 

If  you  destroy  that   free  adjustment   by  enabling   some   parts 
of  the  country  to  coerce  other  parts  of  the  country  in  their  local 
affairs  by  the  use  of  national  power,   you  will  destroy  the  whole 
system   AND    ULTIMATELY    BREAK   UP  THE   UNION 
-     .\il\  Pitisemfiit    ii;    Ilallimore  .*^nn. 


NATIONAL    PROHIBITION 
AMENDMENT. 


A  RESOLUTION  known  as  the  Sheppard  Bill  for 
the  submission  to  the  states  of  a  prohibition 
amendment  to  the  Federal  Constitution,  was 
adopted  by  the  United  States  Senate  on  August  1,  1917, 
with  the  provision  that  to  become  effective  it  must 
be  ratified  within  six  years.  The  vote  was  65  to  20, 
or  eight  more  than  the  necessary  two-thirds. 

Senator  Borah's  attempt  to  have  the  time  limit 
changed  from  6  to  10  vears  was  defeated  bv  a  vote 
of  CI  to  19. 

The  amendment  of  Senator  Stone  to  provide  distillers 
and  brewers  with  compensation  for  the  loss  of  their 
plants  was  defeated  by  a  vote  of  50  to  31. 

Senator  Newland,  of  Nevada,  offered  an  amendment 
U)  make  prohibition  extend  to  "distilled"  instead  of 
"intoxicating"  liquors.  This  attempt  to  segregate  beer 
and  wine  was  lost  by  a  vote  of  57  to  22. 

Senator  Phelan,  of  California,  presented  a  substitute 
amendment  whereby  the  people  of  the  States  would  have 
alternatives  upon  which  to  vote.  The  first  prohibited 
all  intoxicants ;  the  second  prohibited  only  distilled 
liquors.  The  Senate  refused  this  idea  once  by  a  viva 
voce  vote  and  again  by  roll-call  of  55  to  26. 

The  national  prohibition  amendment  as  passed  by 
the  Senate  on  August  1st  was  adopted  by  the  House 
of  Representatives  on  December  17th  by  a  vote  of  282 
to  128.  The  Senate  passed  the  bill,  fixing  the  time  for 
ratification  at  six  years  ;  the  House  extended  it  to  seven 
years,  and  the  Senate  on  December  18th,  by  a  vote  of 
47  to  8,  concurred  in  the  action  of  the  House,  accepting 
the   seven-year  limitation. 

Under  the  terms  of  the  act  the  amendment  does  not 
become  effective  until  one  year  after  final   ratification. 

The  question  is  now  before  the  state  legislatures  and 
must  be  ratified  within  a  period  of  seven  years  by  three- 
fourths  of  the  state  legislatures — 36  of  the  present  48 
states — or  otherwise  the  amendment  fails  by  reason  of 
non-action. 

There  are  now  27  states  either  dry  or  about  to  be- 
come dry.  The  prohibitionists  must  retain  the  present 
27  dry  states  and  gain  9  additional  wet  states. 


Text  of  Amendment* 
The  resolution  as  finally  adopted  reads  thus : 

Section  1.  After  one  year  from  the  ratification  of 
this  article  the  manufacture,  sale  or  transportation  of 
intoxicating  liquors  within,  the  importation  thereof  into, 
or  the  exportation  thereof  from  the  United  States  and 
all  territory  subject  to  the  jurisdiction  thereof  for  bev- 
erage purposes  is  hereby  prohibited. 

Section  2.  The  Congress  and  the  several  States  shall 
have  concurrent  power  to  enforce  this  article  by  appro- 
priate legislation. 

Section  3.  This  article  shall  be  inoperative  unless  it 
shall  have  been  ratified  as  an  amendment  to  the  Con- 
stitution by  the  Legislatures  of  the  several  States  as 
provided  in  the  Constitution,  within  seven  years  from 
the  c^ate  of  the  submission  thereof  to  the  States  by  the 
Congress. 

An  atnendment  offered  by  Representative  Lea.  of 
California,  providing-  that  the  prohibition  provision 
should  not  apply  to  licrht  wines  and  beer,  was  rejected 
by  a  rising  vote  of  232  to  107. 

Representative  Walter  X.  Chandler,  of  New  York, 
speaking  against  the  resolution,  said  in  part: 

"It  is  my  opinion  that  this  is  the  most  radical  and 
revolutionary  proposition  in  the  way  of  an  amendment 
that  has  ever  been  submitted  to  the  American  people. 
I'p  to  the  present  time  we  have  ratified  17  amendments. 
The  first  attempt  that  we  have  ever  made  to  invade 
local  or  state  legislative  action  is  the  amendment  we 
have  before  us.  This  takes  out  of  the  hands  of  the 
State  the  police  power  and  confers  it  upon  the  Federal 
(lovernment. 

"I  have  formed  twelve  groups  of  36  States  each,  but 
each  one  being  dilTerent  from  the  other  and  in  each  one 
there  arc  from  three  million  to  five  million  fewer  people 
and  fewer  votes  than  in  the  twelve  remaining  States, 
showing  that  there  are  twelve  distinct  chances  that  a 
minority  of  the  people  living  in  a  majority  of  the  States 
will  impose  their  will  upon  a  majority  of  the  people 
living  in  a  minority  of  the  States." 

Representative  Djer,  of  Missouri,  speaking  against 
the  amendment,  declared  the  issue  nothing  more  or  less 
than  whether  Congress  should  stand  by  "Dinwiddie  and 
the  Anti-Saloon  League,  who  think  more  of  this  issue 
of  'wet'  and  'dry'  than  they  do  of  tlie  issue  of  whether 
America  or  Germany  shall  win  this  great   war." 

Representative  Gallagher,  of  Illinois,  charged  that 
the  "professional  agitators  who  keep  the  prohibition 
wrangle  constantly  before  Congress"  were  the  same 
people  who  obstnictcd  the  legislation  for  the  conser- 
vation of  food  and   fuel. 

Representative  Kahn,  of  California,  contended  that 
prohibition  should  be  left  to  the  states,  and  ridiculed 
the  holding  of  liquor  re«?ponsible  for  all  the  ills  of 
mankind. 

"Von   cannot   curb    intemperance   by   law,"   he   added. 

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"and   you    make    sneaks,    liars    and    hypocrites    of   men 
when  yon  attempt  to  put  in  force  laws  of  this  kind." 

Invades  State  Rights. 
Representative    George    I.    Graham,    of    Philadelphia, 
in  closing  the  debate  for  the  opponents  of  prohibition, 
said  in  part : 

"It  has  been  said  that  this  is  the  only  way  in  which 
to  reach  the  people  and  a  whole  mass  of  claptrap  has 
been  poured  out  here  in  the  way  of  sentiment  and  sug- 
gestion about  appealing  to  the  dear  people  whom  we  are 
to  consult.  Is  it  consulting  the  people  when  you  send 
this  amendment  to  the  Constitution  down  to  the  States, 
to  be  voted  on  by  the  Legislators  in  those  States?  This 
is  no  direct  referendum  to  the  people. 

"You  may  say  this  is  a  moral  question  and  I  will 
grant  you  that  it  is,  but  you  have-  no  right  to  legi.^late  in 
behalf  of  accomplishments  of  moral  reform  by  adopting 
illegal  measures  to  accomplish  your  purpose." 

The  vote  on  the  resolution  was  as  follows  : 

For  the  Amendment.  Against  the  Amendment. 

Democrats 141       Democrats    64 

Republicans    137      Republicans    62 

Independents   4      Independents   2 

Total 282  Total 128 


"DRY"   NEW   YORK   SUN   PROTESTS. 

THE  New  York  Sun,  an  advocate  of  National 
prohibition ,  emphatically  repudiates  section  2  of 
the  proposed  amendment  to  the  Federal  Constitu- 
tion, which  provides  : 

"The  Congress  and  the  several  states  shall  have  con- 
current power  to  enforce  this  article  by  appropriate 
legislation." 

The  Sun  describes  this  proposed  grant  of  "concurrent 
power"  as  "a  precedent  to  invite  and  facilitate  further 
experiments  in  revolutionizing  our  f.orm  of  govern- 
ment and  to  muddle,  to  what  extent  of  confusion  and 
disaster  we  can  only  conjecture,  the  perfectly  clear  and 
proper  distinction  between  federal  power  and  state 
power  in  legislation."  The  Sun  therefore  comes  to 
the  followdng  conclusion  in  regard  to  section  2  of  the 
amendment : 

"We  can  conceive  of  no  more  dangerous  source  of 
future  trouble  than  will  be  supplied  by  the  deliberate 
introduction  into  the  text  of  the  Constitution  of  this 
fraudulent  and  absurd  clause." 

What  the  Sun  refuses  to  recognize  is  the  fact  that 
the  real  iniquity  of  the  amendment  lies  in  the  principle 
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of  national  prohibition  rather  than  in  this  hypocritical 
clause,  whicfi  was  designed  to  enable  the  Southern 
states  to  save  their  faces. 

All  previous  amendments  to  the  Constitution  have 
involved  an  extension  of  individual  liberty.  This 
amendment  is  the  solitary  instance  in  which  Congress 
has  deliberately  proposed  a  curtailment  of  individual 
liberty  and  a  Prussianized  invasion  of  local  self-gov- 
ernment on  the  part  of  federal  authority. 

What  we  are  facing  now  is  an  actual  revolution  in 
the  vital  and  distinguishing  principles  of  American 
government,  and  this  revolution  loses  nothing  of  its 
dangerous  character  because  the  forces  that  are  guid- 
ing it  pretend  to  be  influenced  only  by  considerations  of 
\irtue  and  religion  and  benevolence. 

With  or  without  section  2,  a  national  prohibition 
amendment  wipes  out  the  elementary  principle  of 
libcrt.y  and  authority  upon  which  the  American  Govern- 
ment was  erected.  It  overthrows  the  local  safeguard 
that  was  established  to  preserve  this  form  of  govern- 
ment. W^hethcr  the  amendment  is  enforceable  or  non- 
cnforceal)le,  whether  the  power  is  concurrent  or  single, 
such  an  amendment  to  the  Constitution  of  the  United 
States  shatters  the  very  corner-stone  of  the  republic. 


A  MATTER  OF  MONEY. 

THIS  is  not  a  good  time  lor  states  to  waste  money 
or  special  sessions  for  an  object  that  can  wait. 
Not  when  the  Treasure  Department  tells  the  cities 
that  they- should  (juit  puslnng  public  works  or  voting 
funds  for  more  improvements.  States  should  practice 
thrift,  too.  It  is  bad  policy  to  i)roject  the  prohibition 
issue  into  politics  now.  That  subject  always  operates 
to  obstruct  and  delay  other  legislation  of  importance. 
At  present  it  will  muddle  every  movement  for  adjusting 
state  revenues  to  the  nation's  war  activities.  More  time 
is  lost  on  wet  and  dry  jockeying  in  legislatures  than 
through  any  other  cause.  Let  us  side-track  prohibition 
and  concentrate  on  winning  the  war.  A  world  free  is 
ol  more  importance  than  one  nation  teetotally  dr\ .-  - 
h'rrdy's  Mirror.         

POLITICAL  TRICKERY. 

THE   political    trickery    iiuoUcd    in    the    attempt    to 
beat  popular  will— tbe  wishes  of  the  majority— by 
putting  over  nation-wide  prohibition  through  the 
alteration   of   the   national   Constitution    is   apparent    at 
a  glance. — Halliwori'  Star. 


"JOE"   BAILEY   OPPOSES   AMENDMENT. 

FORMER  U.  S.  Senator  Joseph  W.  Bailey  has 
written  a  letter  to  U.  S.  Senator  R.  M.  Johnston. 
Editor  of  the  Houston  Post,  which  says  in  part: 
"When  the  fathers  were  organizing  this  Republic 
they  sought  to  create  a  general  government  which 
would  be  strong  enough  to  serve  the  purposes  for 
which  it  was  intended,  and  yet  not  so  strong  as  to 
interfere  with  any  proper  function  of  the  several 
states.  According  to  that  plan,  they  conferred  on  the 
general  government  full  power  over  our  foreign  rela- 
tions, a  limited  power  over  our  interstate  rela-tions,  and 
left  to  each  state  the  exclusive  power  to  regulate  its 
local  affairs.  There  was  some  who  doubted  the  wisdom 
of  conferring  all  power  with  respect  to  our  foreign 
relations  on  the  general  government;  but  it  was  wisely 
determined  that  as  all  of  the  states  would  be  held  re- 
sponsible for  our  conduct  towards  foreign  nations,  the 
government  representing  all  the  states  should  possess 
tlie   power  to   control   that   conduct. 

A  Very  Wise  Choice. 

A  large  number  doubted  the  wisdom  of  conferring 
upon  the  general  government  power  over  interstate  re- 
lations ;  but  upon  consideration  they  became  convinced 
that  if  every  state  was  left  to  decide  for  itself  a  question 
concerning  it  and  another  state,  each  would  decide  that 
question  according  to  its  own  interest  or  passions,  thus 
inevitably  resulting  in  unfriendly  restrictions,  if  not  in 
open  collisions ;  and  to  obviate  that,  a  very  large  ma- 
jority agreed  to  the  arrangement  as  it  had  been  pro- 
posed. A  still  larger  number,  including  all  of  the 
extreme  Federalists,  objected  to  leaving  the  states  with 
such  vast  powers,  expressing  the  fear  that  they  would 
in  time  impair  the  efficiency  of  the  general  government ; 
but  the  convention,  by  a  very  decisive  majority,  over- 
ruled their  objection,  and  the  government  was  estab- 
lished with  that  distribution  of  its  powers.  It  had 
hardly  been  inaugurated,  however,  when  the  advocates 
of  centralization  began  a  systematic  effort  to  reduce, 
by  construction  and  administration,  the  powers  of  the 
states,  and  to  correspondingly  enlarge  the  powers  of 
the  United  States.  That  effort  was  resisted,  and  out 
of  the  conflict  of  opinion  thus  precipitated  the  Demo- 
cratic party  was  born. 

Preserve  State  Rights. 

"If  there  has  been  one  article  of  our  creed  to  which 
we  have   adhered    more   steadfastly  than   to   all   others 


since  Thomas  Jefferson  first  founded  our  party,  it  has 
been  the  doctrine  of  state  rights;  and  if  there  was 
ever  a  time  when  a  strict  adherence  to  that  doctrine 
was  more  necessary  than  at  all  other  times,  it  is  now.. 
when  the  general  government  has  already  encroachg*! 
upon  the  states  to  an  extent  which  must  alarm  ev^ry 
thoughtful  Democrat.  Will  the  Federal  Department 
of  Justice,  prosecuting  our  citizens  for  conspiracy 
against  the  United  States,  as  in  the  Nueces  County 
case,  when  there  was  not  a  shadow  of  an  excuse  for 
that  prosecution  with  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United 
States  practically  nullifying  the  power  of  the  state* 
to  regulate  commerce  wholly  within  them,  as  it  did  in 
the  Shreveport  rate  case ;  with  Congress  usurping  con- 
trol over  children  in  the  states,  as  it  did  in  the  Child 
Labor  law ;  and  remembering  that  these  are  but  ex- 
amples of  the  steady,  persistent,  and  numerous  en- 
croachments, it  would  seem  that  Democratic  Congress- 
men would  understand  the  necessity  of  opposing  the 
further  extension  of  Federal  power. 


CONGRESSMAN   McARTHUR. 

TO  inject  a  question,  such  as  national  pro- 
hibition, will  not  tend  to  solidify  the  peo- 
ple of  the  country  in  support  of  a  common 
cause,  but  will  so  upset  business,  economic  and 
political  conditions,  that  the  war  will  become  of 
secondary  import.'ince  in  the  minds  of  millions  of 
people."— /?<'/>rt\vr>»/rt/ii-«'    fro)fi   "dry"   Orcfjnn. 


"If  the  evils  of  the  liquor  traffic  were  increasing,  I 
could  understand  that  good  men  might  conclude  that 
the  methods  by  which  we  have  heretofore  dealt  with 
are  insufficient,  and  might  insist  upon  new  and  more 
drastic  methods.  But  this  is  not  the  case.  You  know, 
and  every  other  intelligent  man  in  this  country  knows. 
that  there  has  never  been  an  hour  in  the  histor\-  of 
this  country  when  the  evils  of  the  liquor  traffic  were 
less  than  they  are  today,  and  we  also  know  that  those 
evils  have  been  constantly  diminishing  through  many 
years.  When  I  first  became  a  legal  voter,  there  was 
a  saloon  on  almost  every  good  corner  of  every  city, 
town,  and  village  in  this  land,  and  in  the  very  midst 
of  them  we  reared  a  race  of  the  bravest  men  and  the 
purest  women  whiih  any  age  or  ((Minfrv  h.is  vet  pr(.- 
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duced.  I  do  not,  of  course,  mean  to  say  that  those 
saloons  stimulated  the  courage  of  our  men,  or  culti- 
vated the  virtue  of  our  women ;  nor  do  I  doubt  that 
we  would  have  been  better  off  without  them.  But  I 
do  say,  in  the  light  of  that  experience,  that  it  is  worse 
than  folly  for  these  extremists  to  tell  us  that  we  should 
destroy  these  states  in  order  to  destroy  the  saloons. 
If  it  were  necessary  to  do  the  one  in  order  to  do  the 
other,  I  would  still  refuse ;  because  to  do  that  would 
be  as  foolish  as  it  would  be  for  a  farmer  to  burn  his 
bafn  in  order  to  drive  away  the  vermin.  I  know  we 
can  live  and  prosper;  that  we  can  extend  the  influ- 
ence of  religion,  and  multiply  the  blessings  of  educa- 
tion ;  that  we  can  even  advance  the  cause  of  temper- 
ance, and  improve  the  public  morals  in  spite  of  the 
saloons,  because  our  fathers  did  all  of  that,  and  more ; 
but  we  cannot  save  this  Republic,  if  we  abandon  the 
principles  on  which   it  was   founded. 

"But  happily  we  are  not  compelled  to  choose  between 
continuing  the  saloon  and  destroying  the  states.  For 
thirty  years  the  people  of  the  various  states,  without 
surrendering  any  power  which  belongs  to  them,  have 
been  gradually  banishing  the  saloon,  until  eight-tenths 
of  them  have  disappeared. 

What  It  Will  Lead  To. 

"If  this  prohibition  amendment  becomes  a  part  of 
the  Federal  Constitution,  we  might  as  well  abandon  all 
hope  of  preserving  the  rights  of  these  states,  for  it 
will  be  followed  by  others  of  its  kind.  Next  will  come 
a  national  woman  suffrage  amendment,  and  after  that 
will  come  an  amendment  authorizing  Congress  to  estab- 
lish uniform  laws  of  marriage  and  divorce.  This  last 
amendment  is  already  being  urged  by  many  of  the 
same  people  who  have  promoted  the  prohibition  and 
the  woman  suffrage  amendments;  and  when  it  is 
adopted — as  it  will  be  in  time,  if  the  prohibition  and 
the  suffrage  amendments  are  ratified — there  will  not 
be  a  square  foot  of  territory  in  the  United  States 
where  it  will  be  unlawful  for  negroes  and  white  people 
to  intermarry.  Then  will  come  a  proposal  for  a  con- 
stitutional amendment  authorizing  Congress  to  regu- 
late the  distribution  of  estates  where  decedents  leave 
property  in  several  states.  These  same  people  are  even 
now  asking  why  property  belonging  to  the  same  man 
should  descend  differently  because  it  happens  to  be 
situated  in  different  states,  and  why  a  will,  valid  in  the 
state  where  the  maker  resides,  should  be  insufficient 
to  pass  the  title  to  real  property  in  another  state.    Thus 

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year  after  year 'the  proponents  of  uniformity  will  con- 
tinue their  propaganda,  until  finally  what  were  once 
sovereign  states  will  be  reduced  to  a  condi-tion  where 
they  will  hardly  enjoy  the  rights  of  conquered  provinces. 

Where,  Our  Duty  Lies. 

"Shall  we  stand  idly  by  and  witness,  without  an 
effort  to  prevent  it.  the  utter  subversion  of  this  Re- 
public? I  sincerely  hope  not.  The  duty  of  the  real 
Democrats  of  Texas  is  a  plain  one,  and  an  imperative 
one.  We  must  organize  to  defeat  the  ratification  *of 
this  amendment  by  our  state,  and  we  must  at  the  same 
time  make  a  supreme  effort  to  rescue  our  party  from 
the  control  of  men  who  either  do  not  understand  or 
else  do  not  cherish  its  fundamental  principles.  To 
some  of  the  Texans  who  voted  for  that  amendment 
I  am  sincerely  attached,  and  I  would  divide  with  them 
my  last  dollar  or  my  last  crust  of  bread;  but  I  will 
not  give  my  vote  to  any  man  who  gjves  his  vote  to 
deprive  these  states  of  the  right  to  control  their  own 
domestic  concerns. 

"Mistakes  of  policy,  the  consequences  of  which  we 
may  measure  in  dollars  and  cents,  may  be  tolerated; 
but  a  sacrifice  of  the  very  basic  principles  of  the  Re- 
public is  in  politics  what  blasphemy  of  the  Holy  Ghost 
is  in  religion — an  unpardonable  sin.  We  can  repair 
mistakes,  even  though  they  be  grievous  ones,  if  they 
relate  only  to  property  or  to  property  rights ;  but  a 
mistake  which  alters  the  very  form  and  structure  of 
this  Government  can  never  be  repaired,  and  it  ought 
not,  tlierefore.  to  be   forgiven." 


FAVORS  LOCAL  OPTION. 

Wi".  arc  very  frank  to  say  that  wc  du  not  .sec  the 
place  of  this  measure  in  the  Constitution.  It  is 
too  much  like  .ui  effort  at  the  forcible  reforma- 
tion of  the  American  public  from  without,  rather  than 
the  more  sound  advancement  of  the  individual  and 
social  conscience  from  within.  Local  option  is  now 
such  a  general  rule  that  practically  any  locality  can 
have  prohibition  by  referendum,  a  statement  of  the 
direct  wish  of  a  majority  of  the  citizens.  Any  state 
may  enforce  prohibition  if  the  citizens  so  desire.  And 
it  is  protected  against  a  shipment  of  litpior  from  with- 
out by  the  so-called  "bone-dry"  law,  which  even  pro- 
hibits liquor  advertising  being  carried  into  such  states 
in  the  public  print^^— .V.t.m;-^-   (A',  .r')   .Vrtc.T. 


AFTER  PROHIBITION— WHAT? 

IX  the  North  American  Review,  Whidden  Graham, 
asks  and  answers  the  question — "After  National  Pro- 
hibition— What  ?" 

"National  prohibition,"  he  says,  "would  merely  de- 
stroy a  great  industry  and  revert  the  manufacture  of 
liquor  back  to  the  days  of  individual  production  when 
every  home  contained  a  still." 

Instead  of  pure  liquors  manufactured  under  the 
strict  supervision  of  the  Federal  Government,  all  kinds 
of  impure  and  dangerous  compounds  would  be  sup- 
plied through  back-alley  S'surces.  Men  v^ho  formerly 
stopped  occasionally  to  have  one  drink  would  find  it 
easy  to  buy  liquor  by  the  quart  and  gallon,  and  having 
it  in  their  homes,  would  drink  more  and  oftener.  The 
withdrawal  of  the  Federal  internal  revenue  preventive 
service  would  leave  the  enforcement  of  prohibition  to 
state  officials,  who  could  not  prevent  its  constant  vio- 
lation. The  advocates  of  national  prohibition  seem 
to  think  that  there  is  some  magic  about  a  constitu- 
tional amendment  that  will  insure  its  enforcement.  Mr. 
Hobson  and  all  other  prohibition  advocates  from  the 
South,  know  that  Article  XV  of  the  Constitution  is 
flagrantly  violated  by  a  number  of  Southern  states 
through  "grandfather"  laws,  and  other  restrictions  on 
the  suffrage,  which  are  intended  to  deny  to  citizens 
of  the  United  States  the  right  to  vote  because  of  their 
race  or  color.  The  Civil  Rights  Act  of  1875  is  a  striking 
illustration  of  an  unenforced  Federal  statute.  Neither 
a  law  nor  a  constitutional  amendment  will  enforce 
itself,  and' it  is  a  self-evident  fact  that  an  army  of 
1,000,000  men  could  not  prevent  cider  from  becoming 
"hard,"  grape  juice  from  becoming  alcoholic,  or  a  per- 
son desiring  alcohol  from  making  it  in  his  own  house 
by  the  simple  method  above  described.  The  net  result 
of  national  prohibition  would,  therefore,  be  to  substi- 
tute for  pure  liquors,  manufactured  under  Government 
supervision,  all  sorts  of  compounds  made  and  sold  by 
"moonshiners"  and  "bootleggers,"  from  which  no  rev- 
enue would  be  secured. 

MORE  LIKE  216,000  DRY  LOBBYISTS. 

PROHIBITION  polled  only  210,000  votes  at  the  last 
election,  but  it  seems  to  have  sent  216,000  Senators 
and     Representatives    to     Congress." — Nezv     York 
Herald. 


PROHIBITION    WOULD    COST    FROM 
THREE  TO  FIVE  BILLION  DOLLARS. 


PUT  as  briefly  as  pos>ible,  the  different  effects  of 
nation-wide  prohibition  may  be  stated  as  follows  : 
Abolition  of  business  representing  a  capitalization 
estimated  at  from  $3,000,000,000  to  $5,000,000,000. 

Absolute  loss  of  a  large  proportion  of  the  assets  of 
this  industry  and  tremendous  depreciation  in  value  of 
the  remainder. 

Closing  up  of  over  2,000  plants  manufacturing  dis- 
tilled, malt  and  vinous  liquors,  having  a  capital,  by 
the  1914  census,  of  $915,000,000.  purchasing  raw  mate- 
rials valued  at  $180,000,000  annually  and  turning  out  a 
product  valued  at  over  $665,000,000  annually. 

Closing  up  of  over  2<)3,000  retail  liquor  establish- 
ments with  an  investment  running  up  into  many  millions 
of  dollars. 

Bankruptcy  for  thousands  of  these  manufacturers, 
wholesalers  and  retailers,  who  will  find  themselves  fac- 
ing a  tremendous  loss  on  property,  the  value  of  which 
is  either  wiped  out  or  greatly  depreciated  and  a  large 
proportion  of  whose  debtors  in  the  same  line  of  busi- 
ness will  be  unable  to  meet  bills  due. 

Loss  to  railroads  of  the  country  of  revenue  on  traffic 
running  up  into  millions  of  dollars,  netting  them  a 
considerable  percentage  of  tiieir   income   from    freight. 

Loss  of  billions  of  dollars  to  wholesale  grocers, 
hotel  owners,  restaurant  keepers,  dniggists,  both  whole- 
sale and  retail,  most  of  whom  ordinarily  are  not  classed 
by  the  public  \\ith  the  liquor  industries. 

Loss  of  billions  of  dollars  in  assets  and  in  annual 
business  to  barrel  and  stave  manufacturers,  lumber 
men,  bottle  makers,  box  makers,  grain  dealers,  printers, 
auto  tnick  manufacturers  and  other  collateral  lines  ot 
business.  Loss  of  millions  of  dollars  annually  to  in- 
surance men  in  premiums.  Loss  of  millions  to  build- 
ing constructors,  etc. 

Loss  of  customers  for  hundreds  of  millions  annually 
now  received  for  corn,  barley,  hops,  rice,  wheat,  grapes, 
apples,  peaches,  cherries,  molasses  and  other  farm  prod- 
ucts now  utilized  by  distillers,  brewers  and  wine  makers. 

200,000  Directly  Employed. 

Loss  of  jobs  by  some  15.000  salaried  employes,  sonic 
15.000  traveling  salesmen,  some  65,00(1  wage-earners  in 
manufacturing  and  wholesale  liquor  establishments,  and 


loss  of  places  by  1U1,j;M4  bartenders — a  grand  total  of 
nearly  200,000  employes,  making  a  living  upon  a  con- 
servative estimate  for  1.000,000  of  tbe  100,000,000  people 
of  th?  coimtry.  All  of  these  figures,  with  the  exception 
of  the  estimate  as  to  traveling  salesmen,  are  from  tbe 
United  States  Census  of  Manufactures  for  1909.  The 
salary  and  wages  of  the  employes  of  the  liquor  manu- 
facturing plants  alone  in  1914  is  given  bv  the  census 
as  $90,000,000  a  year. 

$284,000,000  Internal  Revenue. 

Loss  of  $278,000,000  annually  in  internal  revenue  and 
over  $13,000,000  in  customs  revenue — a  grand  total  of 
nearly  $300,000,000,  over  one-third  of  the  total  annual 
income  from  all  sources. 

Necessity  of  raising  this  vast  sum  by  taxation  in 
other  directions.  Necessity  for  a  vast  army  of  United 
States  officials  to  enforce  the  nation-wide  prohibition 
law  in  every  state  and  every  local  community  within 
the  country's  bounds.  This  will  also  entail  the  necessity 
of  raising  a  great  sum  by  taxation  in  addition  to  that 
raised  to  replace  the  internal  revenue  and  customs 
revenue  lost  by  abolishing  the  liquor  industry. 

Loss  to  states  of  many  ijiillions;  to  counties  of  other 
millions,  and  to  incorporated  places  having  a  popula- 
tion of  2,500  and  over,  of  $51,955,000— a  grand  total 
running  up  into  the  hundreds  of  millions  every  year  in 
liquor  licenses  and  tax  receipts. 


TOAST  TO 
VICTORY. 

English       and 
Japanese        naval 
officers     drinking 
to     the     British- 
Jap   alliance. 

Photo  by  Paul  Thompson 

78.  \ 


iVei^ 


THE   PUBLIC   HAS   NOT   SPOKEN. 

COMAIENTIXG  upon  the  ratification  of  the  prohihi- 
tion  amendment  to  the  Federal  Constitution  by  the 
Legislatures  of  Mississiopi.  South  Carolina,  \'ir- 
ginia  and  Kentucky,  the  Galveston  Neivs  thinks  that 
such  action  in  these  states  relegates  the  doctrine  of 
state  rights  to  the  museum  of  philosophical  antiqi:-:ties. 
And  it  adds :  "It  cannot  longer  be  oflfered  as  an  argu- 
ment for  or  against  governmental  measures,  for  the 
reason  that  the  people  among  whom  it  was  reverenced 
have  repudiated  it  as  a  touchstone  of  wisdom  and  ex- 
pedience." 

Our  contemporary  cannot  be  allowed  to  make  so 
grievous  a  mistake  as  its  assertion  that  ''the  people" 
have  repudiated  the  doctrine  of  state  rights. 

In  the  four  states  it  mentions  as  having  ratified  the 
prohii)ition  amendment,  surrendering  to  the  Federal 
Government  tht  right  to  control  the  liquor  traffic  within 
their  boundaries,  the  people  were  not  given  an  oppor- 
tunity to  debate  or  pass  upon  the  measure. 

In  each  one  of  these  states  snap  judgment  was  taken 
by  the  Legislature,  because  the  political  influences  were 
afraid  to  permit  the  people  to  pass  upon  the  amendment 

There  is  every  reason  to  l>e]ieve  that  the  people  of  all 
these  states  would  ha\  e  rejected  the  amendment  if  thc> 
had  been  given  an  opportunity. 

Limit  of  Inconsisency. 

Representative  prohibitionists  in  each  of  these  states 
have  strongly  condemned  this  measure  of  centralization, 
which  seeks  to  destroy  the  right  of  home  rule  or  local 
self-government  in  this  country  at  a  time  when  we  are 
pouring  out  blood  and  treasure  to  establish  the  rule  of 
(kmocracy  throughout  the  world. 

The  Post  is  unable  to  reconcile  the  centralistic  trcntl 
in  the  United  States  with  the  action  of  the  nation  in 
making  unprecedented  sacrifices  to  destroy  centraliza- 
tion in  Europe.  It  is  compelled  to  believe  that  the  peo- 
ple of  the  country  when  they  are  permitted  to  ponder 
the  principles  of  making  the  Federal  Constitution  \ 
repository  of  the  police  powers  now  belonging  to  the 
states,  will  be  sure  to  see  that  what  they  are  warring 
against  in  Europe  cannot  possibly  be  good  for  the 
United  States. 

To  say  that  the  doctrine  of  local  self-governnunt 
must  be  discarded  in  the  United  States  is  nothing  short 
of  prophesying  the  earl\  destruction  of  the  Republic. 

The    optimism    of    TJir    Post    is    such    that    no    sucii 


prophecy  is  justifiable  merely  because  snap  legislative 
judgment  has  been  taken  in  four  states.  We  must  at 
least  have  a  decisive  verdict  by  the  people.  Even  if  that 
should  be  forthcoming,  The  Post  would  still  believe  that 
the  people  would  ultimately  reconsider  their  fatal  step 
and  save  the  Republic. — Hbuston  Post. 


This  cartoon  from 
the  New  York 
World,  entitled 
"Tearing  Up  the 
State  Lines,"  shows 
what  Congress  did 
when  it  passed  the 
national  Prohibition 
amendment. 


ABUSE  OF  THE  CONSTITUTION. 

CYRUS  H.  W.  CURTIS,  owner  of  the  Ladies'  Home 
Journal  and  the  Saturday  Evening  Post,  and  editor 
of  the  Philadelphia  Ledger,  is  certainly  no  enemy 
of  real  temperance  and  no  enemy  of  the  prohibitionists. 
He  has  always  been  an  earnest  temperance  worker. 

In  his  newspaper,  the  Evening  Public  Ledgrr,  he  had 
this  to  say: 

"We  have  repeatedly  pointed  out  in  these  columns 
that  to  prostitute  the  Constitution  to  purposes  of  legis- 
lation is  to  undermine  the  authority  of  that  instrument 
and  imperil  hereby  the  stability  of  the  Government. 
Prohibition  is  a  policy,  not  a  principle.  The  Constitu- 
tion has  never  been  the  vehicle  for  declarations  of  pol- 
icy. Not  even  the  Monroe  Doctrine  has  been  incor- 
porated into  the  fundamental  law.  To  compel  all  the 
states  to  conform  to  the  police  regulations  of  a  majority 
of  the  states  would  be  to  destroy  local  government, 
which  within  the  corpus  of  vast  sovereignties,  as  well 
as  in  colonies,  has  been  found  by  human  experience  to 
be  vital  to  contentment  among  citizens." — Washington 
Times. 

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WOULD  CREATE  49  NATIONS. 

AN  entirely  new,  a  startling  proposal  is  contained  in 
the  new  Section  2  of  the  proposed  amendment : 
"The  Congress  and  the  several  states  shall  have 
concurrent  power  to  enforce  the  article  by  appropriate 
legislation. 

Calmly  as  an  old-fashioned  Xew  England  L'-fgislature 
used  to  pass  an  Act  for  the  Protection  of  Alewives  the 
Judiciary  Committee  .of  the  House  purposes  to  create 
forty-nine  nations,  to  strip  the  United  States  of  its 
sovereignty,  to  make  it  the  forty-ninth  in  a  collection 
of  states,  independently  and  in  conjunction  with  the 
Congress,  according  to  their  sweet  will  and  pleasure, 
enforcing  this  precious  amendment.  "All  legislative 
powers  herein  granted  shall  be  vested  in  a  Congress  of 
the  United  States."  For  the  benefit  of  the  budding 
amendment,  legislative  powers  for  a  particular  purpose 
are  vested  in  ?.  Congress  of  the  United  States  and  in 
the  legislatures  of  forty-eight  states.  Section  1  of 
Article  1,  needs  amendment.  Article  X,  "The  powers 
not  delegated  to  the  United  States  are  reserved 
to  the  states,  respectively,  or  to  the  people,  seems 
to  need  revision  in  the  light  of  the  new  amendment, 
which  delegates  to  the  states,  divides  among  them, 
yet  retains  its  undivided  forty-ninth  of  a  power  dele- 
gated to  it  by  the  Constitution.  We  put  the  reserved 
fraction  at  one  forty-ninth,  but  the  grant  of  concurrent 
power  to  legislate  appropriately  seems  to  imply,  if  con- 
current legislation  is  like  concurrent  jurisdiction,  that 
if  the  State  Legislatures  hal)itually  use  their  power  to 
enforce  the  amendment  they  will  exercise  it  exclusively. 
Either  the  United  States  will  have  resigned  in  practice, 
or  it  will  exercise  only  a  fraction  of  power  which  in 
any  case  it  has  no  right  to  part  with  under  the  Con- 
stitution. 

It's  Fooling  'Em  All. 

What  is  concurrent  legislation?  The  federal  powers 
and  the  state  powers  are  exclusive,  barring  the  "twilight 
zone."  On  a  subject  on  which  a  state  has  the  power 
to  legislate  until  Congress  legislates,  the  state  law,  when 
Congress  does  legislate,  is  eitlier  over-ridden,  or  is  valid 
only  in  so  far  as  it  is  not  inconsistent  with  the 
federal  law. 

The  most  fantastic  dreams  ot  constitution-tinkercrs 
never  imagine  any  Witches*  Xight  of  innovation  like 
this.  The  United  States  abdicates  sovereignty.  It  sets 
up  forty-nine  co-e(iual  powers,  forty-nine  concurrent— 
or    dissenting— confederate    autlioritirv    \n    cntono    an 


amendment  for  whose  execution  the  drys  on  the  House 
Judiciary  Committee  may  have  thought  that  Congress 
might  show  no  intemperate  zeal. 

The  interstate,  the  state-federal  bickerings  and  collis- 
ions, the  clash  of  coifrts,  the  inequalities  and  injustices 
which  this  curious  scheme  implies  and  involves,  are 
obvious.  Not  for  its  inevitable  sequela,  but  for  its 
essential  folly,  is  it  most  to  be  reprehended.  So  far  as 
it  goes,  and  for  the  august  necessities  of  prohibition,  it 
denationalizes  the  nation.  It  deposes  the  United  States 
and  scatters  the  supremacy  of  its  government.  Per- 
haps our  ^uess  is  wrong  about  the  motives  that  brought 
this  eccentric  proposal  to  life.  Did  some  cynical  wet 
want  to  make  the  amendment  ridiculous,  odious,  and 
impossible? — New  York  Times. 


A  TOUCH  OF  BOLSHEVIKISM. 

FORTY-EIGHT    battlefields    have    been    designated 
where   the   American   people   must   fight   over   an 
internal  issue  while  the  country  is  engaged  in  the 
greatest  war  of  the  world's  history. 

The  Bolsheviki  declare  that  their  solution  of  the  in- 
ternal questions  of  Russia  take  precedence  over  the 
war.  They  have  gone  so  far  as  to  enter  into  an  armis- 
tice with  their  country's  enemy.  The  attitude  of  the 
prohibitionists  has  a  touch  of  Bolshevikism.  They  de- 
clare that  the  internal  question  of  prohibition  shall  be 
settled  in  time  of  war,  even  if  it  means  the  diversion 
of  the  attention  of  patriotic  citizens  from  the  nation's 
far  greater  task  and  the  perversion  into  campaign  chan- 
nels of  money  that  the  country  needs  in  its  fight  against 
Prussianism. — Cincinnati  Times-Star. 


RATIFICATION? 

HOW  far  will  the  amendment  interfere  with  the 
right  of  a  state  to  local  self-government?  Sup- 
pose a  state  that  has  ratified  the  prohibition 
amendment  should  reverse  that  action.  Would  the  old 
rule  stand  that  "ratification  is  final,  while  rejection  is 
not?"  Can  a  prohibition  legislature  of  a  decade  or  a 
score  of  years  ago  bind  a  state  today  or  tomorrow  that 
may  elect  a  "wet"  legislature?  The  only  kind  of  pro- 
hibition that  is  right  or  tolerable  is  the  prohibition  the 
individual  imposes  on  himself.  For  the  rest — freedom 
with  responsibility. — Reedy's  Mirror. 

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WILL  SUPREME  COURT  DECIDE? 

IN  proposing  a  measure  of  such  far-reaching 
consequences,  conflicting  as  it  does  with  the 
police  powers  of  the  states  and  entering  do- 
mestic Hfe  of  the  individual  citizen,  Congress  has 
entered  a  new  and  uncharted  sea  of  political  ex- 
perimentation. Nothing  in  the  Federal  Constitu- 
tion indicates  that  Congress  possesses  any  such 
power  as  it  has  undertaken  to  exercise. 

If  the  battle -goes  to  the  last  round  the  referee 
will  be  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States. 
— Boston  (Mass.)  Globe. 


RESULTS  OF   NATIONAL  PROHIBITION. 

1.  It  would  destroy  a  present  Federal  revenue  of 
$L>oO,000,000  and  a  future  revenue  of  $500,000,000  almost 
immediately  available,  at  a  time  when  every  dollar  is 
needed   for  war  purposes. 

2.  It  would  destroy  state  and  municipal  revenues, 
amounting  at  the  present  time  to  $100,000,000. 

3.  It  would  require  immediate  redrafting  of  the  war 
revenue  act,  and  the  imposition  of  hundreds  of  millions 
of  dollars  of  direct  taxes  upon  the  American  business 
interests,  in  addition  to  the  heavy  war  burc-lens  now 
imposed  upon   them. 

4.  It  would  require  drastic  and  sweeping  changes 
in  the  tax  systems  of  many  states  and  hundreds  of 
cities,  with  heavy  increases  of  taxation  upon  tlie  lands, 
buildings  and  personalty  of  the  residents  thereof. 

T).  It  would  cause  the  total  and  immediate  destruc- 
tion of  business  enterprises  capitalized  at  more  than 
a  billion  of  dollars. 

6.  It  would  cause  the  sudden  throwing  upon  the 
market  of  thousands  of  storerooms  now  profitably 
rented  and  immense  losses  to  real  estate  investors  in 
the  way  of  decreased  rentals  and  lowered  property 
values. 

Would  Paralyze  Trade. 

7.  It  would  produce  complete  paralysis  of  trade  in 
many  communities,  and  its  blighting  effect  would  be 
felt  throughout  the  whole  country. 

8.  It  would  produce  a  feeling  of  anger,  resentment 
and  dissatisfaction  among  millions  of  American  work- 
ingmcn,  who  have  officially  gone  on  record  through 
their  trades  assemblies  as  opposed  to  such  a  step,  and 

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to  whom  a  glass  of  beer  has  been  a  daily  necessit}-, 
and  upon  whom  our  success  in  this  war  depends.  Great 
Britain  and  other  warring  countries  have  preserved 
their  brewing  industries  in  order  that  their  soldiers 
and  workers  may  have  an  adequate  allowance  of  their 
accustomed  beverage. 

Does  not  the  war  itself  demoralize  business  enough? 
Must  we  deliberately  add  to  the  unrest  of  the  times? 
President  VVi*Ison  says  "No."  He  is  on  record  as  op- 
posed to  nation-wide  prohibition  as  a  war  measure ; 
whatever  may  be  his  opinion  on  the  subject  is  a  matter 
for  debate  and  disposition  at  normal  times — Mihvaukee 
Free  Press.  

SENATOR  HARDWICK  ON  PROHIBITION. 

UNITED  STATES  SENATOR  HARDWICK,  of 
Georgia,  a  state  that  has  been  dry  for  nine 
years,  opposes  national  prohibition.  Senator 
Hardwick  says  the  amendment  violates  the  spirit 
of  the  Federal  Constitution,  adding  "that  right,  local 
self-government,  is  a  part  of  the  priceless  heritage 
of  liberty  that  came  to  us  from  our  English 
forbears.  To  assert  it  and  preserve  it,  the  war  of  the 
Revolution  was  fought — to  defend  it,  my  fathers  and 
my  people  shed  their  blood  like  water  in  the  unfortun- 
ate Civil  War,  and  though  the  grim  verdict  of  that  war 
may  have  determined  the  indestructibility  of  the  union 
and  denied  the  right  of  secession  to  the  states,  it  did 
not  destroy  or  seek  to  destroy,  the  right  of  the  states  to 
local  self-government.  I  cannot  for  an}'  sentimental 
reason,  or  because  of  any  extreme  case,  prove  faithless 
to  the  great  doctrine  for  which  my  people  have  fought 
and  bled  through  two  great  wars.  It  is  a  part,  and  it 
should  be  an  indestructible  part  of  that  priceless  herit- 
age of  liberty  that  it  is  my  duty  to  preserve  and 
transmit. 

"Shall  we  do,  on  one  side  of  this  question,  with  smug 
and  complacent  self-righteousness,  what  we  denounce 
as  a  tyrannical  interference  with  our  rights  and  liber- 
ties, if  it  were  done  on  the  other  side?  Exceptions  to 
it  are  both  insidious  and  dangerous.  Once  we  embark 
on  that  course,  who  can  predict  where  it  will  end  or 
how  it  will  stop.  Will  it  embrace  our  election  law's 
and  our  elections  themselves,  substituting  federal  regu- 
lation and  control  for  state  regulation  and  control  ? 
"\Vho  can  predict?  For  one,  I  am  not  willing  to  risk  it. 
For  one,  I  cannot  desert  my  principles,  however  much 
I  might  like  to  put  a  ban  on  the  liquor  traffic." 

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MAY  GIVE  NEGRO  VOTE. 

WE  believe  that   North   Carolina   should   turn   this 
amendment  down — and  turn  it  down  hard. 

The  question  is  whether  North  Carolina — 
which  is  "dry"  by  exercise  of  its  primal  right  of  local 
self-government — shall  take  part  in  coercing  and  dic- 
tating to  "wet"  states  the  abandonment  of  their  funda- 
mental and  hitherto  unquestioned  right  to  decide  for 
themselves  what  they  shall  drink — wine,  beer,  whiskey 
— all  or  none. 

North  Carolina  became  saloonless — by  vote  of  its 
people.  It  is  a  Sahara  of  dryness,  by  vote  of  its  legis- 
lature. 

No  one  questions  North  Carolina's  right  to  be  "dry," 
if  it  so  desires.  And  it  can,  under  the  present  U.  S. 
Constitution,  if  it  should  so  vote,  again  become  wet. 

But  the  Northern  states,  with  their  millions  of  tem- 
perate drinkers,  seriously  object  to  North  Carolina  and 
other  "dry"  states  attempting  to  dictate  to  them  a 
Sahara  of  dr>ness,  which  they  do  not  want. 

It  is  none  of  our  business  whether  New  York  drinks 
or  not. 

We  are  opposed  to  this  amendment,  not  only  because 
it  is  vicious  in  principle,  but  because  it  has  dynamite 
in  it — and  is  liable  to  react  in  a  disastrous  way  to  the 
South.     North  Carolina  is  a  Southern  state. 

The  Washington  Timcx  put  it  squarely  up  to  the 
South,   when  it  said  : 

"Let  Southerners  renumber  that  if  it  is  just  and  wise 
to  apply  to  white  workmen  of  the  North  conditions 
that  they  impose  upon  negro  labor  in  the  South,  they 
will  have  no  right  to  complain  if  later  on  an  energetic 
Republican  decides  to  impose  upon  them,  the  white 
Democrats  of  the  South,  notions  regarding  the  ballot- 
box  and  the  right  of  every  man  to  vote  as  he  pleases 
that  prevail  in  the  North." 

This  amendment,  the  Times  says,  within  ten  years  will 
do  to  the  Congressmen  from  the  South  what  the  Anti- 
Saloon  League  threatened — put  them  politically  out  of 
business.  ^ 

"And  the  Anti-Saloon  League,  gentlemen."  the  Times 
concludes,    "financed    by    Northern    money,    will    be   the 
first  to  applaud." 
What  does  this  mean? 

It  means  that  there  is  already  one  amendment  in 
the  U.  S.  Constitution,  which  invades  State's  rights 
to  this  extent,  that  no  State  shall  deprive  the  citizen 
of  his  vote  on  account  of  color.    That  amendment  is 


already  there,  and  it  will  take  a  vote  of  two-thirds 
of  the  States  to  change  it,  whereas  the  Southern 
States  are  not  one-third  of  the  American  Union  of 
48  States. 

That  Amendment  gives  to  Congress  the  pov/er  to 
force  upon  the  South  a  vote  for  the  negro — and  a 
revival  of  the  dangerous  color  question.  If  enforced, 
it  would  give  South  Carolina  a  negro  government 
from  top  to  bottom. 

The    North — which    is    wet— may    and    probably 

would,    in    revenge,   assisted    by    the    woman-voting 

dry  Republican  States  of  the  West,  force  upon  the 

South,  a  law  that  would  put  the  negro  in  power. 

—From  the  Highlander,  Shelby,  A'.  C.  Dee.  22,  1917, 


THE  MINORITY  RULES. 

FIGURES  from  the  last  national  election  cast  a  light 
upon  some  startling  facts.  They  reveal  the 
amazing  truth  that  in  the  so-called  Prohibition 
states  only  3S,000  votes  are  necessary  to  elect  a  Con- 
gressman, while  45,000  votes  are  required  for  a  similar 
representation  from  the  "wet"  states.  Thus  a  repre- 
sentative from  a  licensed  state,  speaking  for  a  consti- 
tuence  of  45,000  voters,  has  his  vote  ofl'set  by  a  prohi- 
bitionist representing  only  38,000 ! 

This  inequality  of  representation  paves  the  way  for 
minority  rule  and  raises  the  question  whether  or  not 
the  vote  of  one  man  is  not  as  good  as  that  of  another. 

The  comparison  between  some  of  the  states  is  pathet- 
ically grotesque.  "Drj^"  Mississippi  has  a  national  rep- 
resentative for  every  11,000  voters;  "wet"  Ohio  only 
one  for  every  50,000 ;  "dry"  South  Carolina  one  for 
every  10,000  voters ;  and  "wet"  Illinois  has  only  one 
representative  for  every  75,000  voters. 


PROHIBITION  AND  SLAVERY. 

THE  prohibition  states  are  now  undertaking  to  dc^ 
what    the    slave    states    once    unsuccessfully    at- 
tempted.    They  are  resolved  to  extend  their  pro- 
hibitory system  to  the  rest  of  the  country  and  to  over- 
ride the  states  that  are  opposed  to  the  Federal  regula- 
tion of  the  sumptuary  habits  of  the  people. 

Nation-wide  prohibition  could  never  be  enacted  by 
the  vote  of  the  American  people  themselves.  Its  only 
chance  lies  in  the  acquiescence  of  36  state  legislatures 
which  actually  represent  a  minority  of  the  population 
of  the  country. — New  York  World. 

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NATIONAL   PROHIBITION   WOULD   HIT   AT 

OUR    ALLIES    ABROAD,    KEEPING 

THEM     FROM     EXPORTING 

LIQUOR  TO  AMERICA. 

A  THING  which  has  not  been  taken  into  considera- 
tion by  the  prohibitionists  is  the  effect  national 
prohibition  in  the  United  States  would  have  on 
foreign  countries.  During  the  year  ending  June  30, 
1917,  spirits,  wine  and  malt  liquors  imported  from 
abroad  numbered  17,679,132  gallons.  During  the  same 
period,  20,875,9oO  gallons  were  exported.  In  addition 
to  being  deprived  of  $297,000,000  a  year  in  taxes  from 
liquor  made  in  the  United  States,  our  Federal  Go%'em- 
ment,  under  national  prohibition,  would  lose  ihe  sum 
paid  as  duty  on  imported  liquors. 

It  is  also  very  reasonable  to  suppose  that  some  foreign 
nations  which  have  been  exporting  liquors  to  the  United 
States  may  retaliate  by  barring  certain  goods  imported 
from  America. 

National  prohibition  would  hit  at  France  and  Italy, 
from  which  wo  got  most  of  our  imported  wines  and 
licjucurs.  and  Great  Britain,  where  v.e  get  all  our 
"Scotch"  whiskies.  This  would  be  a  fine  way  to  treat 
our  Allies,  wouldn't  it? 

"HARD   TIMES    COMING."   SAYS   CARTER 
HARRISON. 

CARTER   H.    H.VRRISON,    former  mayor   of    Chi- 
cago, writing  in  the  Chiiiigo   Rxaminrr,  predicted 
hard  times  are  coming  if  National  prohibition  prc- 
\ails,  saying : 

"It  is  all  important  for  the  general  good  that  these 
workers  be  kept  happy  and  contented.  If  they  feel 
themselves  imposed  upon,  if  measures  are  applied  to 
their  ordinary  mode  of  life  which  they  regard  as  unfair, 
uncalled  for,  unjustified  by  conditions,  they  will  grow 
sulky  and  discontented,  the  effect  will  become  manifest 
in  a  falling  off  in  the  amount  of  work  produced  and  in 
an  increase  of  harmful  political  agitation. 

"The  revenue  producers  of  the  Senate  have  counted 
upon  raising  $500,000,000  in  the  coming  year  from  the 
nation's  litpior  interests.  Cut  off  this  revenue  upon 
which  the  administration  has  counted  and  what  will  be 
tlie  result?  The  answer  is  easy.  A  like  amount  of 
rovenue  must  be  raised  from  some  other  source.  A  tax 
will  be  placed  elsewhere,  and  this  tax  sooner  or  later 
will  come  out  of  the  pocket  of  the  ultimate  consumer. 
The  cost  of  living  will  become  still  greater,  the  danger 
of  unrest,  of  general  discontent  will  be  enhanced. 


"Not  only  will  federal  taxes  be  increased.  At  a  time 
when  all  taxation  will  be  most  onerons  the  revenues  in 
many  cities  will  be  so  curtailed  that  new  sources  of 
revenue  must  be  sought.  Chicago  derives  about 
s7,000,600  a  year  from  its  saloon  licenses.  This  money 
supports  the  police  and  fire  departments.  Where  will 
the  money  for  these  departments  come  from  if  in  one 
swoop,  without  opportunity  being  afforded  to  find  other 
>ources  of  revenue,  this  enormous  sum  is  made  un- 
available? 

Would    Halt    Action    Until   War    Ends. 

"These  are  trying  times.  Conditions  must  grow  worse 
as  the  days  pass  by.  If  ever  there  was  a  time  when 
unity  of  spirit  and  concert  of  action  should  ^^e  encour- 
aged, when  unnecessary  argument  should  be  avoided, 
Nvhen  there  should  be  national  tolerance  and  recognition 
of  the  rights,  real  or  supposed,  of  all  classes  of  our 
citizenship,  this  is  it. 

"Every  force  of  the  nation,  every  shade  of  political 
and  economic  belief  must  pull  together  for  the  common 
cause.  Common  prudence  suggests  that  we  exert  the 
national  effort  today  for  the  winning  of  the  war  and 
leave  the  settlement  of  economic  questions  until  in  a 
period  of  peace  there  may  be  time  and  opportunity  for 
thorough  argument  and  wise  determination." 


NATIONAL    PROHIBITION    UNNECESSARY. 

BY  the  enactment  ot  the  Webb-Kenyon  law,  giving 
the  states  complete  control  of  the  interstate  traffic 
in  liquors,  Congress  has  given  each  state  the  power 
to  exclude  all  liquor  from  its  territory.  The  Reed 
"bone-dry"  law,  enacted  in  1917,  makes  it  a  felony  to 
ship  liquor  into  prohibition  states.  These  laws  enable 
the  states  to  be  as  dry  as  they  choose,  and  even  those 
prohibition  states  which  permitted  the  importation  of 
liquor  for  personal  use  will  be  made  "bone-dry"  so  far 
as  the  shipment  of  liquor  from  wet  territor>^  is  con- 
cerned. 

Congress  having  made  it  possible  for  each  and  all 
of  the  states  absolutely  to  prohibit  the  making  or  sell- 
ing of  liquor,  there  is  now  not  the  slightest  excuse  for 
further  action,  either  by  direct  legislation  or  the  pend- 
ing amendment.  The  states  now  have  all  the  power 
that  they  would  have  under  national  prohibition,  and 
if  they  fail  to  enforce  their  laws  it  is  because  public 
sentiment  is  not  united  in  their  i^xor.— Robert  Bhuk- 
7'.'ood,  in  Reedy' s  Mirror. 

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FINANCIAL  RESULTS  OF  PROHIBITION. 

'T'HE  following  figures  can  be  verified  by  consulting 
■*    government  statistics : 

Capital  invested  in  the  liquor  industry.  .$1,294,583,426.00 
Annual  disbursements  other  than  wages  1,121.696.097.30 
Annual  disbursements  for  wages 453.872,553.00 

Total    $2^870, 152.076.36 

Out  of  257  industries  specified  by  the  United  States 
<ensus  of  1910  only  five  had  a  larger  amount  of  capita! 
invested  than  the  liquor  industry. 

"The  value  of  farm  products  used  are  as  follows : 

Barlev  $55,236.6-41 

Corn" .  30.024,335 

Wheat   869.938 

Rice   .  .     7,288.786 

Hops .    11,155,215 

Rve   4,e04,476 

Molasses    2.056,626 

Fruit 751,835 

Other  products 626,119 

"During  1913  the  liquor  intercst«i  contributed  .$13,485,- 
160  to  farm  labor,  or  a  sum  sufficient  for  the  employ- 
ment of  7,419  persons  for  six  months  at  $30  per  month. 
The  liquor  industry  and  the  allied  industries  give  em- 
ployment to  considerably  over  1.0<)<t.000  people,  and  if 
their  dependents  are  considered,  ti  grand  total  of  about 
4,000,000  persons  are  involved. 

Means  Increased  Taxes. 

"The  retail  liqu(^r  trade  alone  pays  $199,438,882  per 
aniuim  for  rent — and  this  does  not  include  hotels,  etc., 
that  will  be  seriously  affected.  There  will  be  thousands 
of  buildings  vacant,  with  the  result,  that  real  estate 
values  will  decrease,  but  taxes  will  increase  because  of 
.1  decreased  revenue  to  state  and  government. 

"The  amount  of  insurance  carried  by  the  retail  trade 
.done  is  estimated  at  approximatly  $226,772,180.  The 
animal  disbursements  for  license  fees  for  1913  amounted 
to  $109,254,044,  and  this  does  not  include  fees  from  drug 
stores,  grocery  stores  and  such  establishments  that  dis- 
tribute liquor.  There  is  approximately  $500,000,000 
collected  anmially  in  federal,  state,  county  and  city 
taxes  from  the  liciuor  business  which  will  be  wiped  out 
by  prohibition.  There  would  be  a  deficit  in  the  national 
treasury  under  prohibition  of  at  least  $325,000,000  a 
year. 

"What  would  prohibition  and  local  option  mean  to 
Xew  York  state  alone?    There  are  152,000  persons  em- 

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ployed— annual  wages  paid,  $128,000,000;  value  of  pro- 
duct in  trade,  $842,000,000;  internal  revenue  tax  for 
1914,  $72,000,000;  number  of  farms  devoted  to  hops 
culture.  2,227;  acreage,  12,850."— JF.  R.  Couch,  in  Magu- 
cinc  of  Wall  Street. 


CHURCH  AND  POLITICS. 

To  the  Editor  of  the  New  York  World: 

THE  politicians   of  the   south   have   defended   their 
advocacy  of  prohibition  on  the  ground  that  it  is 
"necessary  to  keep  liquor   from   the  negro."      Of 
course  it  is  not  necessary  to  keep  liquor  from  themselves 
or  their  friends.      That  is  another  story. 

If  it  was  necessary  to  keep  liquor  from  the  negro, 
why  did  it  take  the  southern  politicians  so  many  years 
to  find  it  out?  The  truth  is,  the  prohibition  movement 
in  the  south  was  a  church  campaign.  After  it  became 
well  organized  and  financed,  the  southern  politicians 
began  to  sit  up  and  take  notice.  They  soon  found  that 
it  meant  votes.  The  man  who  opposed  this  so-called 
"moral  reform"  was  denounced  from  the  pulpits,  and 
his  opponent  at  the  primaries  was  likel}^  to  get  the 
nomination. 

So  the  prohibition  movement  became  a  most  import- 
ant factor  in  the  religion  and  politics  of  the  south. 
There  being  practically  only  one  political  party  in  most 
of  the  southern  states,  the  prohibition  issue  was  seized 
upon  as  a  valuable  asset.  Under  the  cover  of  prohibi- 
tion the  southern  politicians  have  been  able  to  divert 
attention  from  other  issues. 

And  thus  you  find  the  preacher-politician  running 
things  in  the  south.  Some  of  the  preachers  are  fairly  ' 
good  politicians,  while  most  of  the  politicians  are  good 
preachers  who  can  discourse  most  eloquently  on  the 
evils  of  intemperance  and  the  abuse  of  drink. — [/'.  R. 
Agnezv.  

AMEN^DMENT  IS  VICIOUS. 

PROF.  WILLIAM  STARR  !^IYERS,  of  Princeton, 
took  issue  with  the  prohibition  amendment  because 
it   provides   concurrent   jurisdiction   between    state 
and  the  federal  government,  and  this,  he  said,  is  vicious ; 
it  is  turning  the  clock  backward,   and  does   not  make 
for  national  unity. 

"If  prohibition  is  a  national   policy  it  should  be  en- 
forced by  national  authority,"  he  said.      "The  amend- 
ment as  it  now  stands  is  bad  tactics,  bad  politics  and 
bad  constitutional  law." — Union,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
3r, 


LEGISLATURES  AND  TKE  PEOPLE. 

MR.  W  ILLL\M  H.  ANDERSON,  Superintendent 
of  the  Anti-Saloon  League  of  New  York,  is 
wrothy  with  Senator  Calder,  who  has  had  the 
indiscretion  to  propose  a  popular  referendum  in  that 
state  on  prohibition  before  the  legislature  acts  on  the 
Federal  amendment.  The  proposed  referendum  is  a 
"scheme  of  the  liquor  interests,"  cries  Mr.  Anderson. 
Ever\'thing  is  a  scheme  of  the  liquor  interests  that  is 
not  consonant  with  the  desires  and  plans  of  our  tolerant 
and  patient  friends,  the  professional   prohibitionists. 

No  legislature  should  act  upon  the  prohibition  amend- 
ment without  a  clear  mandate  from  the  voters.  Mr. 
Anderson  is  conceivably  distrustful  of  the  results  of  a 
popular  referendum  on  the  subject.  Well,  there  can 
at  least  be  ©ne  in  every  legislative  district.  Almost  all 
the  states  will  elect  legislatures  next  year.  The  legis- 
latures of  six  states  blessed  with  annual  sessions  will 
meet  in  1918.  and  there  will  be  five  biennial  sessions 
Tennessee  and  Florida  have  a  wise  constitutional  pro- 
vision prohibiting  a  legislature  from  ratifying  a  Federal 
Constitutional  amendment  proposed  by  Congress  after 
the  election  of  that  legislature.  Forty-six  states  more 
need  that  protection  against  misjudgment  of,  or  falsifi- 
cation of,  or  guessing  at  the  will  of  the  majority.  A 
change  for  all  time  of  the  fundamental  law  is  not 
lightly  to  be  assented  to. — Neiv  York  Times. 

SUGGESTS   STATE    RIGHTS   PARTY. 

l-.dih'r  of  rUiladclphia  Record: 

NOW  that  the  Congress  has  passed  the  National 
Trohibit-ion  anKMulmeiU  to  the  Constitution,  these 
questions  naturally  arise: 

Is  not  the  time  opportune  for  organizing:  a  State 
Kiehts  party  in  every  slate  in  the  Union? 

Will  not  those  who  hold  sacred  the  Constitution  of 
the  United  States,  now  that  it  is  the  subject  for  attack 
by  an  organized  group  of  monomaniacs,  rally  to  its 
defense? 

Since  the  South,  owing  to  its  dominating  influence 
and  power  at  Washington,  has  successfully  crammed 
the  Prohibition  amendment  down  the  mental  throats 
of  the  North,  despite  the  latter's  protest,  why  cannot 
the  Northern  and  Eastern  Congressional  Representa- 
tives, especially  those  from  the  large  cities,  vote  affirma- 
tively   for   the    Woman''^    Suffrage    amendment,    despite 


the  South's  hatred  of  this  doctrine,  thereby  giving  the 
Southern  congressmen  a  dose  of  their  own  medicine? 

Dominating  every  other  issue,  even  those  that  may 
arise  through  the  exigencies  of  war,  will  be  the  Pro- 
hibition issue.  "Are  you  wet  or  are  you  dry?"  Not 
"Are  you  mentally  and  morally  fit  to  represent  your 
state  or  city  in  the  respective  position  you  seek  at  the 
hands  of  the  people?"  is  the  question  that  will  confront 
every  man  who  comes  up  for  office,  especially  those 
who  aspire  to  legislative  honors.  To  successfully  wage 
an  independent  campaign  against  those  men  who  might 
favor  the  national  prohibitory  amendment,  so  as  to 
have  injected  this  question  in  the  councils  of  either 
of  the  two  dominant  parties,  thereby  causing  confusion, 
to  the  utter  V.isregard  of  the  other  issues  these  parties 
may  be  obliged  to  campaign  on,  there  should  come  a 
State  Rights  party,  whose  party  policy  should  be  that 
the  great  State  of  Pennsylvania  shall  not  be  dictated 
to  on  such  a  question  as  prohibition,  either  by  the 
Southern  states  or  by  the  sage-brush  states  of  the  West. 

Xew  York  City.    "  Arthur  P.  Morse. 

GOOD-BYE,  HOME  RULE! 

THE  Express  has  felt  that  the  method  of  obtaining 
prohibition  by  act  of  the  federal  government  was 
so  wrong  in  principle  as  to  create  a  greater  dan- 
ger than  the  evils  which  prohibition  seeks  to  cure.  It 
sets  aside  completely  the  principle  of  local  home  rule, 
which  is  one  of  the  foundation  stones  of  the  republic. 
Every  nation  w^hich  denies  this  right  to  any  consider- 
able part  o-f  the  people  whom  it  governs  sooner  or  later 
finds  them  seething  with  discontent  and  disloyalty  and 
ready  for  rebellion.  We  do  not,  of  course,  predict 
rebellion  in  the  United  States  on  the  liquor  question, 
but  we  do  think  that  prohibitionists  have  too  little 
appreciation  of  the  importance  of  the  great  principle  of 
government  which  they  would  set  aside. 

Furthermore,  The  Express  has  felt  that,  in  any  event, 
the  prohibition  question  should  be  deferred  till  after  the 
war.  It  is  a  dangerous  time  to  develop  new  grievances 
against  the  government  out  of  which  to  recruit  Bol- 
sheviki,  and,  whether  right  or  wrong,  it  is  not  good 
statesmanship  to  close  one's  eyes  to  the  fact  that  there 
is  a  very  large  percentage  of  the  population  which  will 
feel  bitterly  aggrieved  by  the  enforcement  of  prohibition 
laws,  and  this  is  the  very  element  from  which  Socialism 
and  Bolshevikism  draw  their  easiest  converts — Buffalo 
Express.    ^ 

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A   SOUND   PROVISION. 

THE  Legislatures  of  Alississippi,  Kentucky  and  \'ir- 
ginia  have  blithely  ratified  the  prohibition  amend- 
ment. It  is  unfortunate  that  every  state  con- 
stitution doesn't  contain  this  proviso  of  that  of  Ten- 
nessee,  substantially  repeated  in  Florida's : 

"No  convention  or  General  Assembly  of  this  state 
shall  act  upon  any  amendment  of  the  Constitution  of 
the  United  States,  proposed  by  Congress  to  the  several 
states,  unless  such  convention  or  General  Assembly 
shall  have  been  elected  after  such  amendment  is  sub- 
mitted." 

No  legislature  should  act  on  a  constitutional  amend- 
ment without  a  direct  mandate  from  the  people.  The 
alteration  of  the  fundamental  law  is  not  for  unin- 
structed  legislators  to  ratify  on  their  own  hook. — Xezv 
York   Times.  

LET  THE  PEOPLE  RULE. 

THE  only  way  to  decide  the  matter  fairly  and 
squarely  for  all  is  to  submit  it  to  a  vote  of  the 
people  at  a  Presidential  election,  as  the  Sacra- 
mento Bee  suggests,  for,  as  the  Bee  adds:  "H  nation- 
wide prohibition  is  the  will  of  the  majority,  no  fair- 
minded  man  could  object  to  a  decision  thereon  bv  a 
vote  of  All  the  People." 

The  proposed  National  Constitutional  Amendment, 
taking  from  the  people  the  right  to  vote  on  the  ques- 
tion, and  giving  the  privilege  to  the  legislatures,  that 
may  be  beset  with  all  manner  of  temptations,  is  an  un- 
American  act.  and  dcscrvts  to  be  dcnoimced  in  un- 
measured terms. — Byron    {Cnl.)    Tiiius. 

AN  ANTI-WAR  MEASURE. 

THE  amendment  is  not  a  war  measure  becatisc  at 
least  three  years  and  possibly  seven  will  bo  re- 
quired to  settle  it.  It  is  an  anti-war  measure 
because  the  fight  will  take  place  during  the  period  of 
the  war  and  will  seriously  interrupt  national  unity  in 
war  work  and  war  measures.  It  will  divert  vast  sums 
of  money  to  the  pro  and  anti  propagandas  and  cam- 
paigns which  ought  to  be  expended  in  the  support  of 
the  war. 

If  the  amendment  should  be  adopted  its  enforcement 
would  require  an  army  of  United  States  officers  and 
licavv  appropriations  b\  Congress. — St.  I.ouis  Post- 
Pist'ohh 


WHAT  CARDINAL  GIBBONS  THINKS. 

EXPRESSING  himself  in  no  uncertain  terms, 
Cardinal  Gibbons  stiJongly  opposes  the  national 
prohibition  amendment  and  declares  that  it  would 
be  a  calamity  were  it  adopted. 

"It  will  be  only  a  step  for  the  abridgment  of  other 
liberties  that  we  enjoy,"  he  stated  in  a  recent  interview. 
"Those  favoring  the  amendment  will  not  be  satisfied 
with  this  victory,  and  they  will  try  to  impose  other 
obnoxious  laws  upon  us  that  will  make  our  personal 
liberty  worth  very  little. 

"Liquor  is  an  aid  to  health  at  times,  as  any  reputable 
physician  will  tell  you  if  you  take  the  trouble  to  inquire. 
It  has  been  used  to  great  advantage  in  the  preservation 
of  health,  and  it  is,  therefore,  something  that  does  not 
injure  the  human  system  when  taken  in  moderation. 

"Liquor  is  one  of  God's  creatures.  Christ  proved  that 
at  the  wedding  feast,  when  he  changed  water  to  wine 
and  blessed  it.  Our  Savior  would  never  bless  some- 
thing that  was  to  be  a  curse  to  the  human  race,  as  the 
advocates  of  prohibition  would  have  us  believe.  It 
seems  that  some  of  our  legislators  would  make  Moham- 
medans of  us.  Mohammed's  tenets  forbid  the  use  of 
wine,  yet  the  Mohammedan  drinks  in  seclusion  his  wine 
or  his  other  liquor,  despite  his  faith. 

"I  feel  deeply  this  attack  on  our  liberty  of  living  and 
partaking  of  those  things  which  the  Creator  has  pro- 
vided for  us,  and  trust  that  our  legislators  will  have 
the  courage  of  their  convictions  and  vote  to  retain  the 
power  of  the  state  over  this  business,  which  can  be 
made  as  clean  as  anv  other." — Baltimore  Star. 


DEMOCRACY  IN  DANGER. 

OUR  Constitution  is  a  definite  declaration  of  powers 
and  principles,  elastic  only  to  the  extent  that 
rational  interpretation  can  be  predicated  of  its 
clauses.  Jf  we  put  prohibition  in  the  Constitution,  ma- 
jority will  can  never  get  it  out  again.  This  may  seem 
a  good  thing  to  proponents  of  the  measure,  but  it  is 
very  dangerous  in  a  democracy  to  bind  too  tightly  the 
will  of  a  majority. 

We  hope  that  this  amendment  will  be  defeated.  We 
regret  that  it  has  been  initiated,  because  it  is  sure  to 
bring  into  our  politics  an  interest  we  would  prefer  not 
to  have  in  our  politics.  State  legislation  should  deal 
with  this  problem.— /?/'00^/y«  '(.V.   Y.)    Times. 

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CAN  THEY  ANSWER? 

THERE  are  more  standards  of  life  and  stages  of 
moral  and  religious  thought  and  development  than 
states  in  the  American  Union.  A  visit  to  any  two 
of  the  largest  cities  in  any  single  state  will  force  us  to 
contrasts  rather  than  to  comparisons  of  the  opposed 
views,  environment,  civic  spirit  and  habits  of  the  people. 
Morals  in  small  communities  equally  require,  but  do  not 
attract,  the  police  surveillance  and  publicity  of  larger 
cities.  Why  should  the  citizens  of  Salem,  Oregon,  or 
Salem,  Virginia,  sit  in  judgment  to  determine  the  moral 
needs,  the  precise  mode  of  living  of  the  citizens  of  New 
York  or  of  Say  Francisco?  These  are  world  centers 
with  world  needs,  the  others  are  country  centers  with 
countrv  needs. — Wall  Street  Journal. 


"PASSING  THE  BUCK." 

IT  had  become  evident  that  Congress  was  inclined  to 
go    through    the    process    known    as    "passing    the 
fiuck"    to    the    State    Legislatures    in    this    politicalK 
ticklish  question. 

The    amendment    does    not    propose    the    human    im- 
possibility of  imposing  total  abstinence  unon  the  nation 
There  is  no  easier  process  than  distillation,   and    for 
private  use  it  is  not   forbidden. 

Nor  is  home  brewing;  and  with  the  abolition  of  com- 
mercial  brewing   we   should   be   likely  to   revert   to  the 
old-time    primitive    days    and    ways    when    the    "home- 
brewed" ale  and  berr  was  a  staple  item  in  the  domest^ 
economy. — The  Mihcaukee  Sentinel. 

EVEN  OUR  CLOTHING. 

II"   it   may   be  done   lo   restrict   the  traffic   in   drink   it 
may  be  done  to  inhibit  the  use  of  particular   foods, 
and  it  may  be  done,  after  the  model  of  England  of 
the  sixteenth  century,  to  prescribe  the  dress  of  the  com- 
mon people. — Morniuq  Tclciiraph.  New  York  City. 

COL.  HENRY  WATTERSON. 

COL.  HENRY  WATTERSOX,  editor  of  the  Loni^ 
ville  Courier-Journal,  expressing  his  opinion  of  lb 
Nation-wide  I'rohibition  Bill,  declared  : 
"The    bill    ought   to    be    entitled,    *An    act   to   abolish 
responsible     and     representative     government     and     to 
establish  at  Washington  a  centralized  despotism  laid  in 
puritanic  h\-pocrisy  and  >-upportc<l  by  the  spy  system.'  ' 

■10 


WASHINGTON  AND  LINCOLN  ADVISED  USE 
OF  LIQUOR. 

ABRAHAM  LINCOLN  in  liis  love  for  his  fellow- 
men  was  a  temperance  advocate,  but  he  believed 
in  being  charitable  in  an  effort  to  decrease  in- 
temperance; he  believed  in  converting  the  individual 
by  appealing  to  his  character  and  in  a  manner  to  win 
his  confidence.  By  the  same  token  he  was  opposed  to 
driving  an  individual,  to  denouncing  him,  to  cursing 
and  abusing  him,  always  contending  "that  a  drop  of 
honey  catches  more  flies  than  a  gallon  of  gall." 

A  study  of  the  life  and  writings  of  Lincoln  will 
show  to  the  unbiased  mind  that  he  was  a  temperate 
man  and  a  temperance  advocate  in  the  correct  sense  ; 
that  is,  he  believed  in  moderation  in  the  use  of  all 
things.  The  quotations  that  prohibitionists  have  used 
as  coming  from  Lincoln,  when  those  quotations  have 
been  authentic,  have  usually  been  statements  which  he 
made  when  speaking  of  the  abuse  and  excessive  use 
of  hquors.  Mr.  Lincoln's  ideas,  however,  upon  the 
question  were  far  removed  from  those  of  the  modern 
agitating  prohibitionist. 

The    following  extracts   taken    from   his   address   de- 
livered    February    22.     1842.    before    the     Springfield 
Washington  Temperance  Society  (pages  195-209,  Nico- 
lay  and  Hay,  Vol.  L  Gettysburg  edition)   will  bear  out 
the  above  statement : 

For  Selfish  Reasons. 

"The  preacher,  it  is  said,  advocates  temperance  be- 
cause he  is  a  fanatic  and  desires  the  union  of  the 
church  and  state ;  the  lawyer  from  his  pride  and  vanity 
of  hearing  himself  speak;  and  the  hired  agent  for  his 
salary." 

"Too  much  denunciation  against  dram  sellers  and 
dram  drinkers  was  indulged  in.  This,  I  think,  was 
both  impolitic  and  unjust.  It  was  impolitic  because 
it  is  not  much  in  the  nature  of  the  individual  to  be 
driven  to  anything;  still  less  to  be  driven  about  that 
which  is  exclusively  his  own  business,  and  least  of  all, 
such  driving  is  to  be  submitted  to  at  the  expense  of 
pecuniary   interest   of   a   burning  appetite. 

"Another  error,  as  it  seems  to  me,  into  which  the 
old  reformers  fell,  v^as  the  position  that  all  habitual 
.  drunkards  were  utterly  incorrigible  and,  therefore,  must 
be  turned  adrift  and  damned,  without  remedy,  in  order 
ihat  the  grace  of  temperance  might  abound  to  the 
temperate  then,  and  to  all  mankind  some  hundreds  of 
yearv  thereafter." 

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Washington   A    Distiller. 

George  Washington,  concerning  whom  Lincoln  spoke 
with  so  much  eloquence,  was  the  owner  of  a  distillery. 
In  his  will,  at  Mt.  Vernon,  July  9,  1799,  he  bequeathed 
to  his  wife,  "All  my  household  and  kitchen  furniture 
of  every  sort  and  kind  with  the  LIQUOR  and 
groceries  which  may  be  on  hand." 

To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lawrence  Lewis  he  gave  his  "mill. 
DISTILLERY  and  all  other  houses  and  improve- 
ments on  the  premises." 

George  Washington,  who  really  gave  us  the  liberty 
which  is  enjoyed  today,  was  most  certainly  not  a  pro- 
hibitionist. It  was  Washington  who  made  possible  a 
Lincoln,  and  the  fact  that  Lincoln,  on  March  6,  1833. 
obtained  a  license  for  the  sale  of  liquor  and  stocked 
his  tavern,  proves  conclusively  that  he  was  not  a  pro- 
hibitionist. With  these  facts  before  us,  how  can  the 
Anti-Saloon   League  claim   otherwise? 

Opposes  Sumptuary  Legislation. 

Among  his  notes  for  speeches,  October  1,  1858 
(Xicolay  &  Hay,  \'ol.  4,  page  231).  Lincoln  wrote  as 
follows:  "I  am  for  the  people  of  the  whole  nation, 
doing  just  as  they  please  in  all  matters  which  concern 
the  whole  nation;  for  that  of  each  part  doing  jirst  as 
they  choose  in  all  matters  which  concern  no  other  part; 
and  for  each  individual  doing  just  as  he  chooses  in  all 
matters  concerning  nobody  else."  In  a  speech  deli\- 
ered  at  Columbus,  Ohio.  September  G,  18">7  (Nicolay 
&  Hay,  Vol.  5,  page  149),  he  said:  "I  think  the  defini- 
tion of  'popular  sovereignty'  in  the  abstract  would  be 
about  this,  'that  each  man  shall  do  precisely  as  lie 
pleases  with  himself  and  with  all  those  things  that 
exclusively  concern  him  ;  that  a  general  government 
shall  do  all  these  things  which  pertain  to  it,  and  all 
the  local  governments  shall  do  precisely  as  they  plcaso 
in  respect  to  those  matters  that  exclusively  concern 
them.'  " 

Whitney,  in  his  "Life  on  the  Circuit  with  Lincoln" 
(page  117).  comments  as  follows:  ".\t  the  informa- 
tion that  Grant  was  drunk  at  an  important  engage- 
ment, h-aving  been  known  to  have  several*  jugs  of 
whiskey  at  headquarters.  Lincoln  responded:  *I  vvi>l 
1  conki  send  each  of  our  generals  a  jug  of  that  sanu' 
uhiskoy.'" 

(Full  dclails  couct-rniiuj  the  attitude  of  U'ashiiujtoii 
and  Liiuflhi  towards  (^rohihitiiyn  may  he  found  in  the 
1917  Manual.) 


WHY  YOU  PAY  MORE  FOR  LIQUOR. 

WHEN    asked    the    reason    for    the    high    cost    of 
liquors,  Joseph  Debar,  of  Cincinnati,   President 
of    the    National    Association    of    Distillers    and 
Wholesale  Dealers,  replied  : 


"You    can     blame     the     Anti-Saloon    League 
for  it." 


"The  Anti-Saloon  League  lobby  in  Washington  be- 
sieged Congress  to  stop  distilling  in  this  country  when 
at  the  same  time  grain  was  being  shipped  to  England 
to  be  used  in  making  beer  and  spirits  there,"  explained 
Mr.  Debar. 

"Of  the  39,000,000  bushels  of  grain,  chiefly  corn,  used 
for  distil'ling  last  year,  only  12,000,000  bushels  were  used 
for  beverage  spirits.  The  balance  was  used  in  the 
manufacture  of  alcohol  for  munitions.  There  were 
produced  in  the  United  States  84,000,000  gallons  of 
alcohol  for  munitions,  and  there  were  exported  about 
41,000,000  gallons  to  France  and  England.  It  takes 
nearly  two  pounds  of  alcohol  to  make  one  pound  of 
smokeless  powder. 

"There  was  no  necessity  for  stopping  distillation  as  a 
food  conservation  measure,  but  the  Anti-Saloon  League 
took  advantage  of  the  war  conditions  and  clamored  for 
it,  and  the  stopping  of  distillation  has  very  naturally 
affected  the  prices  of  all  liquors.  If  it  were  forbidden 
to  make  sugar  or  flour  or  hats  or  window  glass  during 
the  war,  all  of  these  articles  would  increase  enormously 
ill  price. 

"On  the  third  day  of  October,  1917,  Congress  raised 
the  tax  on  whiskey  to  1:3.20  per  gallon.  This  means  a 
tax  of  80  cents  a  quart;  40  cents  a  pint;  20  cents  a  half 
pint.  Congress  has  doubled  the  tax  on  beer  and  on 
wines.  The  price  of  all  raw  materials  used  in  making 
beer,  wine  and  whiske\-  has  more  than  doubled.  Labor 
is  higher. 

"There  are  two  ways  of  viewing  the  situation. 
One  is  to  get  riled  without  looking  into  the  ques- 
tion— the  other  is  to  cheerfully  pay  the  increased 
prices  and  remember  THE  DIFFERENCE  between 
it  and  the  old  rates  is  your  contribution  to  the  war 
fund. 


"How  is  this?  Well,  when  the  United  States  went  to 
war  with  Germany  the  liquor  interests  were  contribut- 
ing to  the  federal  government  1247,000,000  a  year  in 
Internal  Revenue  taxes,  or  about  one-third  of  the  na- 
tion's normal  income.  Under  the  war  tax  the  liquor 
interests  will  give  Uncle  Same  over  $500,000,000  a  year 
to  help  win  the  war  and  make  the  world  safe  for  de- 
mocracy. One-half  billion  dollars  would  pav  4  per 
cent  interest  on  $12,o00.000.0<}0  worth  of  liberty  war 
bonds,  which  is  over  >^7,(Xm),000,000  more  than  the  gov- 
ernment has  thus  far  planned  to  issue. 

"Whiskey  was  made  formerly  of  corn  costing  50  cents 
to  tiO  cents  a  bushel.  Since  January,  1917,  the  price  of 
corn  has  ranged  lip  to  $2.55  per  bushel  in  distilling 
centers,  an  increase  of  over  4<»0  per  cent. 


"Under  the  new  arrangement  the  liquor 
dealer  and  the  ultimate  consumer  share  equally 
in  the  burden  of  raising  the  additional  sum 
which  President  Wilson  finds  necessary  to 
insure  the  safety  of  this  nation. 

"We  believe  that  when  the  public  knows  the 
facts  it  will  not  think  harshly  of  the  members 
of  the  liquor  trade.  Aided  and  abetted  on  the 
sly  by  the  wily  Anti-Saloon  League,  great  pub- 
licity is  being  given  information  relating  to  the 
increased  prices  on  whiskies,  beer  and  wine,  but 
no  mention  is  being  made  of  the  increased  cost 
of  making  these  beverages. 


"The  same  is  true  of  all  j.;rain  used  by  brewers  and 
is  true  of  the  grapes  and  fruits  used  in  making  wine. 
Labor  and  all  incidental  expenses  such  as  cooperage, 
casing,  bottling,  etc.,  have  increased  greatly.  Now  as 
to  the  taxes  on  these  beverages,  which  were  increased 
by  act  of  Congress,  October  4th,  whiskey  was  formerly 
taxed  $1.10  per  gallon,  and  today  we  have  to  pay  an 
additional  tax  of  $2.10  per  gallon,  making  $320  per 
gallon.  Beer,  formerly  taxed  $1.50  per  barrel,  now  is 
taxed  $3.00  per  barrel.  Wine,  according  to  alcoholic 
strength,  from  10  cents  to  25  cents  per  gallon,  on  wine 
containing  up  to  21  per  cent  of  alcohol.  Over  that 
they  pay  the  same  tax  as  spirits. 

"Cigars,  cigarettes  and  tobacco  and  many  other 
articles  sold  by  retail  liquor  dealers  have  enormously 
increased  in  price. 

"Back  of  all  this,  the  distilling  of  whiskey  has  been 
prohibited  during  the  war.      The  stock  of  \vhisk»  v  now 


in  bonded  warehouses  is  the  smallest  in  many  years. 
Xaturally  those  who  own  these  whiskies  are  asking  full 
prices  for  them. 

"When  a  man  engaged  in  any  other  line  of  business 
raises  his  prices  as  a  natural  result  of  increased  taxes 
by  the  government  and  a  tremendous  increase  in  the 
price  of  raw  materials,  the  customer,  while  grumbling  a 
little,  promptly  produces  the  necessary  money,  and  ex- 
pects to  pay  it.  But  when  the  liquor  dealer  tries  to 
break  even  by  the  same  method  there  is  a  great  outcry, 
as  you  have  already  ascertained. 

"And,  as  I  said  before,  you  can  blame  the  Anti- 
Saloon  League  for  it. ' ' 


WHY  PRINCETON  UNIVERSITY  TURNED 
DOWN  BILLY  SUNDAY. 

THE  following  samples  of  Billy  Sunday's  vulgarity 
are    taken    fr'om    a    letter   written    by    Andrew    F. 
West,  Dean  of  the  Graduate  School  of  Princeton 
University,  to  the  Nezv  York  Times,  and  is  the  reason 
why   that  institution    refused   to    allow    Sunday   to.  ad- 
dress the  student  bodv : 


"And  as  He  (Christ)  prayed  the  fashion  of  His 
countenance  xvas  altered.  Ladies,  do  you  want  to  look 
pretty?  If  some  of  you  women  would  spend  less  on 
dope,  pazaza  and  cold  cream,  and  get  down  on  your 
knees  and  pray,  God  would  make  you  prettier." 


"If  a  woman  on  the  avenue  plays  a  game  of  cards 
in  her  home,  she  is  worse  than  any  blackleg  gambler 
in  the  slums. 

"If  a  minister  believes  and  teaches  evolution,  he  is  a 
stinking  skunk,  a  hypocrite,  and  a  liar. 

"If  I  were  the  wife  of  some  of  you  men,  I'd  refuse 
to  clean  their  spittoons.  I  say,  let  every  hog  clean  his 
own  trough. 

"Your  wi-fe  has  as  good  a  right  to  line  up  before  a 
bar  and  fill  up  her  skin  with  the  hoggut  you  do  as 
vou  have." 

:•:  *  * 

"I  can  understand  why  young  bloods  go  in  lor  danc- 
ing;  but  some  of  you  old  ginks — good-night! 

"Ma  and  I  stopped  in  to  look  at  a  ball  at  an  inaugura- 
tion ceremony.  Well.  I  will  be  hornswaggled  if  I  didn't 
4.-) 


see  a  woman  dancing  with  all  the  men,  and  she  wore 
the  collar  of  her  gown  around  her  waist.  She  had  a 
little  corset  on.     Oh.   I  can't  describe  it. 

"You  stand  there  and  watch  man  after  man  as  he 
claims  her  hand,  and  puts  his  name  on  her  list.  Per- 
haps that  fellow  was  her  lover  and  you  won  her  hand — 
and  you  stand  there  and  watch  your  wife  folded  in 
his  long,  voluptuous,  sensual  embrace,  their  bodies 
swaying  one  against  the  other,  their  limbs  twining  and 
entwining,  her  head  resting  on  his  breast,  they  breathe 
the  vitiated  air  beneath  the  glittering  candelabra,  and 
the  spell  of  the  music — and  you  stand  there  and  tell 
me  there  is  no  harm  in  it.    You're  too  low  down  for  me. 

"I  want  to  see  the  color  of  some  buck's  hair  that  can 
dance  with  my  wife.  I'm  going  to  monopolize  that 
hugging  myself. 

"Then  Herodias  came  in  and  danced  with  her  foot 

stuck    out    to   a   quarter    of    12.    and    old    Herod    said : 

'Sis,  you're  a  peach.    You  can  have  anything  you  want. 

even  to  the  half  of  my  kingdom.'     She  hiked  off  to  her 

licentious  mother." 

♦  *  * 

(Note. — The  complete  letter  of  Andrew  F.  West,  re- 
printed in  pamphlet  form,  will  be  gladly  furnished  upon 
request. — Publicity  Dep.\rtment.) 


ARCHBISHOP  HARTY  SAYS  PROHI- 
BITION IS  WRONG. 

PROHIBITION'  is  wrong  because  it  con- 
founds use  and  abuse.  It  trespasses  on  all 
men's  rights  to  use  or  not  to  use  what  is 
good.  Herein  is  a  fanaticism  that  must  be  fore- 
stalled lest  it  cause  greater  evils  than  are  caused 
by  the  misuse  of  intoxicants. 

"Evils  have  arisen  from  marriage  relations : 
why  not  prohibit  marriage.  Tobacco  has  hurt 
many;  why  not,  then,  see  to  it  that  no  man 
smokes. 

"I  am  opposed  to  prohibition  because  it  docs 
not  make  men  sober  unless,  of  course,  they  choose 
to  be  so,  and  it  breeds  many  evils  such  as  deceit 
and  hypocrisy ;  and,  strongest  reason  of  all,  it 
docs  not  and  will  not  prohibit  " — Archh\<;ho('  of 
Omaha. 


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I      The  Lord's  Mistake      j 

^oiiiiiiiiiiiniiniiiiiiiiE]iiiiiiiiiiiic]iiiiiiiiiiii[]iiiiiiiiiiii[]iiiimiiiiiC]iiiiiiiimi[]iiiiiiiiiiii^^^ 


^  Prohibitionists  charge  that  90  per  cent  of  crime, 
most  of  the  social  evil,  and  the  ills  and  sins  of 
humans  can  be  laid  to  the  door  of  drink. 

^  If  this  were  true,  God  made  a  mistake  when  He 
gave  people  ten  commandments. 

^  Had  He  known  as  much  as  the  prohibitionists  of 
today  think  they  know,  He  could  have  abolished 
murder,  crime,  the  social  evil,  lying  and  all  other 
sins  of  human  beings  by  issuing  a  single  command- 
ment, "THOU  SHALT  NOT  DRINK." 

^  It  is  a  certainty  that  had  God  known  what  the 
"drys"  tell  us  about  liquor,  He  at  least  would  have 
forbidden  His  people  to  imbit)e  of  the  fruit  of  the 
vine.  "Thou  Shalt  Not  Drink,"  would  have  been  the 
eleventh  commandment. 

^  If  drinking  is  the  horrible  crime  that  the  "drys" 
allege,  if  it  is  the  greatest  evil  of  all  time,  as  they 
say,  then  the  Lord  made  a  fatal  mistake  when  He 
didn't  prohibit  it! 

^  It  is  too  bad  the  Anti-Saloon  League  was  organ- 
ized too  late  to  prevent  Him  from  making  a  blunder. 
^Brann's  Iconoclast. 


WHO  WILL  MAKE  UP  THIS  DEFICIT? 

Customs  and  Internal  Revenue  Collected  on  Dis- 
tilled Spirits,  Wines  and  Malt  Liquors  with  Total 
National  Revenue  and  Percentage — Year  Ending 
June  30,  1917. 

(Sour-Ges:  Customs  revenues  from  annual  report  on 
Commerce  and  Navigation;  .Bureau  of  Foreign  and 
Domestic  Commerce,  Department  of  Commerce;  In- 
ternal Revenue  from  reports  of  the  Commissioner  of 
Internal  Revenue.  Treasury  Department.) 
Customs  Revenue:  1017 

From  malt  liquors *        686.296.00 

From  wine 4.758,385.00 

From  distilled  spirits 7,946,ai3.00 


Total    1^  13,391,024.00 

Internal  Revenue,  Other  than  Special  Taxes : 

From  malt  li(iuor $  91,094. 677. 7<^ 

From  distilled  spirits  and  wine 187,288,082.49 


Total    i?278.382.760.19 

Special  Taxes  : 

For  the  manufacture  of  malt  liijuor.v 
and    distilled    spirits .s       367.112.81 

For  the  s.-ilc  of  mnlr  liquor  anH  dis- 
tilled spirits  .  5.256,222.93 

Total    ^    5,623.335.74 

Total  Internal  Rcveiuio 

From  alcoholic  beverages ?28-l, 006,095. 93 

Total  Internal  Reveiuie  and  Customs  Receipts : 

From  alcoholic  beverages. ^297,397,119.93 

Total  Internal  Revenue  Receipts: 

Fr^m  all  sources *. $809,393,640.44 

The  liquor  industry,  then,  paid  into  the  Tr«easury  of 
the  National  Government  for  the  fiscal  year  1917, 
$297,397,119.93,  which  is  over  one-third  of  the  $809.- 
393,640.44,  which  represents  the  total  Internal  Revenue 
receipts  of  the  United  States  Treasury  from  all  sources 
for  the  same  year. 

The  total  reveiuie  received  by  the  various  states  of 
the  Union  in  1915,  in  the  form  of  liquor  licenses,  was 
$20,799,071.00. 

The  total  revenue  rccei\ed  by  the  various  counties 
of  the  Union  in  1913  (the  latest  tigures  available)  in 
the  for-/.i  of  liquor  licenses  was  $().60<\010. 

The  total  revenue  received  by  cities  having  a  popula- 
4■^ 


tion  of  2,500  and  over  in  191o  (the  latest  fignres  avail- 
able) was  $51,955,001.00. 

The  total  amount  paid  into  the  National  Treasury; 
the  state,  countv  and  municipal  treasuries,  was  -1^372.- 
127,866.19. 

This  is  the  revenue  that  the  Anti-Saloon  League 
wishes  to  destroy. 


SAVINGS  ACCOUNTS—U.  S.  CENSUS,  1910. 

The  Tables  Which  Follow  Compare  Social  Condi- 
tions in  "Wet"  and  "Dry"  Stat-es. 

The  average  savings  of  each  depositor  in  the  savings 
banks  of  the  United   States  is  $439.07.     A  comparison 


of  six  "dry"  states  and  six 

Prohibition  States. 

Kansas *231.60 

VVest  Virginia 168.01 

North  Carolina....    171.50 

Georgia  239.54 

Tennessee    262.27 

Xorth   Dakota 207.15 


Average  for  6  "drv" 
states    .■$213.37 


"wet"  states : 

License  States. 

Rhode  Island $544.93 

New   York 545.90 

California    523.48 

Nevada    781.39 

Ohio    356.78 

Pennsvlvania 423.17 


Average  for  6  "wet' 


states 


.$529.2: 


Illiteracy. 

United  States  Statistical  Abstract,  1916,  Page  74, 
Table  43 — "Illiterate  persons  10  years  of  age  and  over, 
1910." — Percentages.  A  comparison  of  seVen  "dry"  and 
seven  "wet"  states. 


Per  cent  of 
Prohibition  Illiterate 

States  Population 

Georgia    20,7 

Maine   4.1 

Mississippi 22.4 

North  Carolina 18.5 

Oklahoma 5.6 

Tennessee 13.6 

West  Virginia 8.3 


Per  cent  of 
License  Illiterate 

States  Population 

California 3.7 

Illinois 3.7 

Missouri 4.3 

Minnesota    3.0 

Ohio    3.2 

Vermont   3.7 

Wisconsin    3.2 


Average  per  cent  of 
"wet"  states 


Average  per  cent  of  7 
"dry"  states 13.3 

Note. — Percentage  of  illiterates  in  other  "wet"  states 
follows:  Connecticut,  6.0;  Massachusetts,  5.2;  Rhode 
Island,  7.7;  Nevada,  6.7;  New  Jersey,  5.6;  New  York, 
5.5 ;  Pennsylvania,  5.9. 

49 


Church  Members — U.  S.  Census. 

Percentage   of   the   Population   Listed   as   Church 
Members. 


Prohibition  States. 

Kansas   28.47o 

Maine   29.8% 

West  Virginia 28.0% 


License  States. 

New  York 43.7% 

Massachusetts  5L3% 

Rhode    Island 54.0%, 


Some  of  the  other  license  states  that  outrank  the  pro- 
hibition states  in  church  membership  by  far,  are  Illinois, 
38.3%;  Ohio,  39.37o ;  Wisconsin.  44.3%;  Louisiana, 
50.6%;  California,  3L1%. 

Building  and  Loan  Associations. 

United  States  Statistical  Abstract  191(5,  Page  59S. 
Table  No.  338 — "Building  and  Loan  Associations." — 
Number  and  assets  1915.  A  comparison  of  seven  "dry" 
and  seven  "wet"  states. 


Prohibition 
States 

Kansas  .... 

Maine 

N.  Carolina 
N.  Dakota.. 
Oklahoma  . 
Tennessee  . 
V\'.  \*irginia 

Total 


Assets  in 
No.  of     Millions 
Ass'ns    of  Dollars 

20 


.    ♦).. 

.  37 
.155 
.  10 
.  35 
.  14 
.  43 

359 


License 
States 

California 89 

Illinois G32 

Missouri 153 

New  Jersey.  .  .  742 
New 'York...  251 

Ohio 657 

Pennsylvania.  18:W 

Total 4354 


Assets  in 
No.  of     Millions 
Ass'ns    of  Dollars 

30 


98 

20 

143 

72 

263 

277 

903 


Paupers. 

United  States  Statistical  Abstract  1916,  Page  6! 
Table  38 — "Paupers  Enumerated  in  Almshouses  1910 
— Number  per  100,000  population, 
five  "dry"  and  five  "wet" 

No.  of 
Prohibition  Paupers  per 

States  100.000  Pop. 

Georgia    31. -J 

Kansas    43.5 

Maine    127.3 

Tennessee    71.8 

West  Virginia 66.2 

Average    number    for  .\verage    number    for 

5   "dr>"   states 68.0  5   "wet"   states 21. ^ 

fin 


lation.      A 
ites. 

comparison    oi 

License 
States 

No.  of 
Paupers  per 
100.000  Pop. 

Florida 
Louisiana 
Texas    . . . 
Wyoming 
Minnesota 

27.5 

1 1 .:'. 
22  1 
13.0 

:w.i 

Insanity. 

United  States  Statistical  Abstract  for  1916,  PaRC  71, 
Table  40 — "Insane  Enumerated  in  Hospitals  in  1910." 
per  100,000  population.  A  comparison  of  five  "dry"  and 
five  "wet"  states. 


Prohibition 

States 
Georgia   . 
Kansas    . . 
Maine   . . . 


No.  of 

Insane  per 

100,000  Pop. 

120.0 

172.2 

......169.5 


North   Carolina 114.3 

West  Virginia 141.0 

Average   for  5   "dry" 
states    143.4 


No.  of 
T  icense  Tn-   n°  ner 

States  100,000  Pop. 

Texas    104.0 

Kentucky  154.5 

Louisiana    130.3 

Florida  112.8 

Wyoming .111.0 

Average   for  5  "wet" 
states 122.5 


Prisoners. 

United  States  Statistical  Abstract  for  1916,  Page  70, 
Table  39 — "Sentenced  Prisoners  in  Penal  Institutions  in 
1910" — per  100,000  population.  A  comparison  of  6  "dr\'" 
and  6  "wet"  states. 

No.  of 
License  Prisoners  per 

States  100,000  Pop. 

Pennsvlvania   106.7 

Illinois  90.6 

Texas 108.5 

Wisconsin  71.8 

Minnesota  77.7 

Ohio 84.0 


No.  of 
Prohibition  Prisoners  per 

States  100.000  Pop. 

Georgia   191.4 

Maine 98.3 

Mississippi    127.0 

Oklahoma 101.1 

Tennessee 125.7 

West  Virginia 119.8 

Average  for  6  "dry" 
states 127.2 


Average  for  6  "wet" 
states 


Labor. 

Special  Bulletin  on  Manufacture,  U.  S.  Census — Wage 
Earners — per  cent  of  distribution.  United  States  100%. 
A  comparison  of  8  "dry"  and  8  "wet"  states. 


Prohibition  Per  Cent  of 

States  Distribution 

Kansas   0.7 

Georgia  1.6 

Tennessee 1.1 

Maine   1.2 

West  Virginia 1.0 

Oklahoma 0.2 

North  Dakota 0.1 

Mississippi 0.8 

Average  per  cent   for 
8  "dry"  states 0.8 


License  Per  Cent  of 

States  Distribution 

New  York 15.2 

Pennsylvania  13.3 

Massachusetts  8.8 

Ohio 6.8 

New  Jersey 4.9 

Illinois 7.0 

Wisconsin   2.8 

Connecticut  3.2 

Average  per  cent   for 
8  "wet"  states 7.7 


51 


Divorces. 


United  States  Statistical 
Table  55 — "Divorces  per 
1900."      A    comparison    of 

>tates. 

Number  per 
Prohibition  100,000 

States  Population 

Georgia   78 

Kansas 286 

Maine  282 

Mississippi 225 

iVorth  Carolina 75 

North  Dakota 268 

Oklahoma 346 

Tennessee 261 

West  Virginia 183 

Average  number  for  [) 
"drv"  states 222 


Abstracts  for  1913,  Page  83, 
1(X),000-  married  population 
nine    "drs"    and   nine    "wet" 


Number  per 

License 

100,000 

States 

Population 

Connecticut  . 

130 

Delaware   . .  . 

43 

Louisiana  .  .  . 

127 

Mar>land 114 

Minnesota    .  .  161 

New  Jersey,  .  60 

New  York 60 

Pennsylvania  94 

Massachusetts  124 

Average  number  for  9 

"wet"  states lOl 


FRENCH    OFFICERS  AT  LUNCH. 


—  Photo  by   Pictori.il   Prt>». 

The  French  are  great  wine  drinkers.  Could  an 
army  of  Prohibitionists  have  excelled  the  French 
feat  in  holding  the  Huns  for  "downs"  on  the  one- 
yard  line  outside  of  Paris? 


KANSAS  VERSUS  THE  LICENSE  STATEl 


The  Case  Against  Prohibition  Kansas. 

MR.  ROYAL  E.  CABELL,  expert  statistical!  and 
former  United  States  Commissioner  of  Internal 
Revenue,  has  made  an  authoritative  analysis  of 
official  records  from  Washington,  D.  C,  showing  the 
position  of  "dry"  Kansas  as  compared  with  the  license 
states. 

Mr.  Cabell's  statistics  are  taken  from  the  1910  Census 
of  the  United  States  Government  and  the  official  rec- 
ords are  from  the  Census  Bureau  in  Washington,  D.  C. 

The  States  which  are  referred  to  as  license  States 
had  "license"  laws  at  the  time  when  the  1910  Census 
was  taken.  Therefore,  despite  subsequent  changes 
in  the  law  of  these  States,  it  is  permissible  to  make 
this  comparison  showing  the  social  conditions  in 
"dry"  Kansas  and  the  license  States  in  1910. 

Insanity. 

Kansas  had  172.3  insane  per  100,000  population  in 
state  and  private  hospitals.  Ten  license  states  with 
better  records  were : 


New  Mexico (j8.43 

Wvoming    115.71 

Florida    113.20 

Louisiana    130.78 

Indiana    167.66 


Kentuckv    155.17 

Utah   ..'. 92.43 

Texas   104.19 

S.  Dakota 148.96 

Nebraska  167.22 


Divorces. 

The  average  annual  divorce  rate  per  100,000  popu- 
lation from  1898  to  1902  for  Kansas  was  286.  Twenty- 
three  license  states  which  had  smaller  average  di- 
vorce rates  for  this  same  period  were  (per  100,000 
population)  : 


Rhode  Island 281 

Xew  Hampshire 272 

Kentucky    237 

Florida  226 

New  Mexico 193 

Vermont  177 

Louisiana    127 

Maryland    114 

Delaware    43 

Missouri   281 

S.  Dakota 270 

Michigan    257 


Ohio    231 

Minnesota  161 

Massachusetts  124 


Pennsvlvania  .  .  .  . 

...     94 

New  Jersey 

...     60 

New  York 

....     60 

Utah    

....  274 

Illinois    

....  267 

Nebraska   

....  226 

Wisconsin   

....   180 

Connecticut   

....   130 

..he    percentage    of    divorces    granted    to    wives    tor 
ruelty  from  1887  to  1906  for  Kansas  was  24.3.   Fifteen 
license  states  with  a  better  record  were : 


Montana  22.7 

New  Mexico 14.8 

Florida  13.5 

Delaware  10.4 

Maryland 2.7 

Massachusetts  22.4 

Rhode  Island 11.4 

New  York 7.1 


Ohio  22.(1 

Kentucky  20.2 

Connecticut  19.8 

Wvoming   15.9 

Utah   12.3 

Louisiana    9.9 

New  Jersey 19 


Church  Membership. 

The  percentage  of  church  membership  to  the  total 
population  in  Kansas  was  28.4.  Twenty-eight  license 
states,  having  a  greater  percentage  of  church  mem- 
bership in  proportion  to  the  population,  were : 

New  Mexico 63.3       Minnesota    41.2 


Massachusetts  51.3 

\cw  York 43.7 

Vermont   42.0 

New  Jersey 39.0 

Illinois    38.3 

Kentucky    37.0 

Nevada   35.3 

Texas 34.7 

Nebraska  .  32.4 

Utah   54.6 

Louisiana 50.6 

Wisconsin    44.3 

I'ennsvlvania  43.0 


Michigan    38.0 

Indiana 34.6 

Maryland    37.1 

Florida  35.2 

Rhode  Island 54.0 

Connecticut    50.0 

New  Hampshire 44.0 

Ohio    39.2 

California    37.1 

Delaware  36.6 

South  Dakota 34.8 

Missouri   ;^5.7 

Montana  32  6 


Murder. 

Kansas  had  11.36  murderers  per  100,000  popul 
The  nineteen  states  that  had  less  homicides  in 
portion  to  the  population   were : 

New  Mexico 3.00      Indiana   

New  Hampshire. .  .  .  4.40 

Utah    6.21 

Minnesota   6.66 


Ptnusvlvania 

Ohio  ' 

X'ermont  .  . .  . 
Connecticut  . 
Wisconsin  .  . 
Rhode   Island 


6.99 
7.47 

7.71 

10.81 

6.22 

6M 


Massachusetts 
South  Dakota. 
New  York..  .  . 
Nebraska  . . 
New  Jersey.. . 
Michigan  . . .  . 
Delaware  . 
Illinois    . 


ation. 
pro- 

9.62 
4.28 
6.03 
6.24 
6.97 
7.31 
7.6:. 
10.00 
11.29 


Juvenile  Delinquents. 

The  rate  of  juvenile  delinquents  in  Kansas  was  2bA)^ 
per  100,000  population.  Nine  license  states  with  less 
juvenile  delinquents  were : 

Louisiana 6.90  Montana   23.5  i 

Florida  13.06  S.  Dakota 17.75 

Utah   20.81  New  Mexico 5.31 

Texas   4.75  Nebraska  11.17 

Minnesota   !.>.:'.; 

Prisoners  of  All  Kinds. 

Kansas  had  a  rate  of  90.94  prisoners  of  all  kinds  per 
100,000  population.  Six  license  states  having  less  pris- 
oners in  proportion  to  the  population  were : 

Wisconsin   71.88      Nebraska  55.12 

South    Dakota 48.10      Minnesota   77.92 

Ohio    84.13      Illinois    90.78 

Pauperism. 

Kansas  had  a  rate  of  43. J9  per  100,000  population, 
which  was  greater  than  the  rates  of  the  following 
six  license  states  : 

Louisiana   n.33      Florida  27.60 

S.   Dakota :  25.00      Minnesota   33.18 

Wyoming    13.57      Texas    22.13 

Savings  Accounts. 

The  report  of  the  Comptroller  of  the  Currency  giv- 
ing the  number  of  savings  depositors  in  mutual  and 
stock  savings  banks  all  over  the  country  on  June  4. 
1913.  shows  that  Kansas  had  1.148  savings  depositors 
tor  each  100,000  of  population.  The  twenty-four  license 
states  having  a  greater  number  of  depositors  in  propor- 
tion to  the  population  than  Kansas,  were  (per  100.000)  : 

Massachusetts   63,411       New  York 32.065 

Vermont   32,167       Minnesota   5,320 

Delaware  16,362      Kentucky  1,819 

Louisiana   7,545      Wyoming    1.405 

Pennsylvania  6,064      Indiana  1,219 

Wisconsin    3,158       New  Hampshire.  ..  .47,581 

Nebraska  1,669      California    31,562 

New  Mexico 1,483      Marvdand   20,939 

Montana 1,260      Utah    12.714 

Connecticut    52,200       Michigan    6,452 

Rhode  Island 25,312      Ohio    6,676 

New  Jersey 12,735       Nevada    1.819 


EDITOR  C.  A.  WINDLE  SPIKES  THREE  PRO- 
HIBITION LIES. 

Genius  of  The  Iconoclast  Shatters  Dry  Theory  That 

Liquor  Causes  Seventy  Per  Cent  of  Insanity, 

Eighty  Per  Cent  of  Poverty  and 

Ninety  Per  Cent  of  Crime. 

THE  first  lie  is,  that  seventy  per  cent  of  insanity  is 
due  to  the  Hquor  business.  As  a  matter  of  fact, 
nine  times  out  of  ten  nobody  knows  why  a  man 
is  crazy ;  nearly  everybody  can  tell  when  he  is  crazy, 
hut  if  you  could  give  a  man  the  concentrated  wisdom 
of  all  tiie  universities,  nine  times  out  of  ten  he  couldn't 
tell  you  why. 

Now,  the  alienists  of  the  world  tell  us  that  there  are 
four  types  of  insanity:  first,  dementia  pr.i-ecox,  prevalent 
among  the  young,  cause  unknown  ;  second,  maniacal  de- 
pressive insanity,  cause  unknown ;  third,  paranoia,  or 
delusions,  cause  unknown;  fourth,  paresis;  everybody 
knows  the  cause  of  paresis,  and  they  know  it  is  not 
drink. 

Where  do  the  prohibitionists  get  their  figures  to  prove 
that  seventy  per  cent  of  insanity  is  due  to  drink' 
Whenever  a  man  goes  crazy  a  prohibition  orator  looks 
over  the  record  and  asks  these  questions :  "Did  this 
man  drink?"  "Yes."'  That  settles  it — booze  did  it! 
You  don't  have  to  go  any  further  at  all.  Suppose  he 
didn't  drink,  then  the  question  goes  back  to  the  father, 
"Did  the  father  drink?"  "Xo."  "Did  his  grandfather 
drink?"  "Xo."  "Did  his  great-grandfather  drink?" 
"Yes."  Well,  booze  did  it !  It  is  upon  such  figures 
and  statistics  of  that  nature  that  they  based  their  charge 
about  insanity  being  due  to  drink.  Why,  it  is  ridiculous  ! 
As  a  matter  of  fact,  when  a  man  plunges  headlong  over 
the  precipice  of  intemperance  to  his  ruin,  it  is  due  to  a 
defect  that  ante-dates  any  drink  that  that  man  ever 
took.  Excess  is  the  result  of  that  defect,  not  the  result 
of  drink.  If  a  man  drinks  to  excess  he  has  this  de- 
fect, and  transmits  the  defect  existing  in  his  nature  to 
his  children,  he  transmits  that  weakness,  that  lack  of 
control.     So  their  charges  are  not  true. 

Poverty   Not   Result  of  Drink. 

Here  is  another  lie  that  is  very  popular  among  the 
<lrys  :  They  charge  that  eighty  per  cent  of  poverty  is 
line  to  the  liquor  business. 

If  eighty  per  cent  of  poverty  were  due  to  drink,  the 
drys  would  all  be  rich,  the  wets  would  all  be  poor. 
We  have  no  such  division  in  any  community  in  America. 


The  prohibition  South  has  more  poverty  than  the  liberal 
North.  Prohibition  Turkey,  the  oldest  prohibition  coun- 
try in  the  vvorH,  is  the  most  God-forsaken  country,  the 
most  poverty-ridden  country  on  the  face  of  the  earth. 
Poverty  is  not  due  to  what  a  man  drinks,  but  when 
the  drys  see  a  workman  spend  a  nickel  for  a  glass  of 
beer  or  a  drink  of  w-hiskey  they  argue  that  spending 
that  money  for  liquor  is  the  cause  of  his  poverty.  But 
when  they  see  a  rich  man  spending  five  dollars  a  throw 
for  champagne,  they  do  not  argue  that  spending  that 
money  for  champagne  makes  him  rich;  yet  there  is  as 
much  in  that  argument  as  there  is  in  the  other,  and 
both  are  nonsensical,  because  the  occasion  of  one  man's 
poverty  and  the  other  man's  riches  lie  entirely  outside 
of  their  bottle  of  champagne  or  glass  of  beer.  I  couid 
mention  many  things  that  cause  poverty — ill-health, 
lack  of  employment,  poor  wages,  bad  judgment,  our 
trust  or  industrial  system  under  which  a  few  people 
get  so  much,  and  there  is  not  a  great  deal  left  for  the 
rest  of  us. 

You  have  got  to  go  to  the  workingmen  of  this  coun- 
try to  establish  one  fact,  that  it  is  not  the  money  they 
spend  for  beer  or  whiskey  that  counts  for  their  pov- 
erty, but  the  money  they  earn  and  never  get — the  money 
they  earn  that  somebody  else  is  spending  for  auto- 
mobiles, palaces,  pearls  and  diamonds,  that  accounts 
for  their  poverty. 

Crime  and  Its   True   Causes. 

The  third  lie  is  the  charge  that  ninety  per  cent  of 
crime  is  due  to  the  liquor  business,  that  if  you  aboHsh 
the  liquor  traffic  you  abolish  crime.     Is  it  true? 

The  causes  of  crime  are  jealousy,  greed,  lust  and 
revenge.  I  spent  a  month  in  the  Carnegie  Library  of 
Pittsburgh  studying  the  criminal  records  of  the  world; 
and  I  found  in  those  records,  first,  that  forty-six  per 
cent  of  all  criminals  were  abandoned  in  childhood ; 
second,  that  seventy-nine  per  cent  of  all  criminals  have 
no  trade  or  profession.  They  have  an  ambition  to  live 
in  a  palace  and  own  an  automobile,  but  they  have  no 
trade  or  profession  by  which  they  can  get  those  things, 
and  therefore  they  resort  to  crime.  In  the  third  place, 
I  found  that  seventy-five  per  cent  of  all  crime  in  every 
country  in  the  world  is  committed  by  people  between 
the  ages  of  twelve  and  twenty-three,  before  the  habit 
of  drink  is  formed.  If  you  take  one  hundred  thousand 
people  between  the  ages  of  twelve  and  twenty-two, 
and  one  hundred  thousand  between  the  ages  of  tw^enty- 
three    and    forty,    the    older    crowd    will    drink   twenty 


times  the  liquor,  and  the  younger  crowd  will  commit 
twenty  times  more  crime  in  the  same  period  of  time. 
That  is  due  to  the  indiscretions  of  youth;  that  is  due 
to  daredeviltry  that  is  found  in  the  young  and  the  con- 
ceit that  they  can  commit  crime  without  being  caught. 
A  man  may  drink  more  as  he  grows  older,  but  he 
knows  better,  and  that  stops  him  from  committing 
crime.  Where  do  the  prohibitionists  get  their  record? 
They  produce  a  record  purporting  to  prove  that  ninety 
per  cent  of  crime  is  due  to  the  liquor  business.  Where 
do  they  get  it?  In  the  criminal  court.  Who  makes 
that  record?  The  criminal.  When  did  he  make  it? 
After  he  got  caught.  Why  did  he  make  it?  He  saw 
no  way  of  escape,  the  prosecutor  !.^ad  the  goods  on 
him;  there  was  the  jury;  he  knjcw  he  would  be  con- 
victed ;  and  then,  like  a  cur.  whimpering  like  a  baby, 
he  raised  the  crv  that  the  dr\s  have  echoed  all  over 
the  world,  "Booze  did  it !"  "Booze  did  it !"  Why  does 
he  say,  "Booze  did  it?"  Why,  he  expects  there  may 
be  a  dn^--  man  on  the  jury,  and  when  the  dry  man  hears 
that  booze  was  the  cause  of  his  downfall,  that  jury- 
man will  feel  like  hanging  the  saloon-keeper  and  turn- 
ing the  criminal  loose.  Yes  I  He  is  pleading  for  sym- 
pathy. Who  believes  him?  He  is  a  burglar,  or  he  is 
a  rape  fiend,  or  he  is  a  murderer.  There  he  stands  in 
the  dock,  so  low  in  the  scale  of  existence  that  he  would 
have  to  climb  a  ladder  to  go  to  hell !  When  he  says, 
"Booze  did  it!"  the  drys  put  him  in  the  George  Wash- 
ington class  and  don't  believe  he  could  lie  to  save  his 
soul.  Instantly  this  monster  becomes  the  incarnation 
of  truth,  and  the  prohibition  preacher  and  paid  agitator, 
and  the  dry  leader,  use  this  man's  lying  confession 
as  a  means  of  convicting  the  liquor  business  on  such 
testimonv. 


MOONSHINE  TRADE   BREAKS   RECORDS 
IN   DRY  TENNESSEE. 

MExMPHIS,  TENX.,  January  21.— Revenue  ofticeis 
have  within  the  last  few  months  destroyed  a  tot.il 
of  400  moonshine  stills  in  Tennessee.  The  num- 
ber of  stills  operating  in  this  state  and  in  Alabama  and 
Georgia  is  probably  greater  than  ever  before.  The  pro- 
duct, which  is  called  whiskey  by  the  white  man  and 
more  correctly  "fire  water"  by  the  Indian,  sells  at  >=10  a 
gallon.  Some  of  the  captured  tnoonshiners  admit  the 
mountain  stiller  no  longer  takes  pride  in  his  product. 
He  used  to  make  it  to  drink.      Now  he  makes  it  to  se'l. 


"WET"  STATES  GIVE  MOST. 

NOW  that  a  national  prohibition  amendment  is  up 
to   the   states    for   ratification,   it   will   be  well   to 
consider  what  records  the  dry  states  have  made 
for  themselves  by  contrast  with  the  wet  states. 

Take  the  two  items  of  income  tax  and  contribution 
to  the  Red  Cross. 

This  will  give  us  some  idea  of  the  relative  influence 
and  power  and  .standing  of  the  two  alignments. 

Twenty-six  wet  states,  together  with  the  District  of 
Columbia,  Hawaii  and  Alaska,  paid  to  the.  Federal 
Government  income  tax.  corporate  and  individual, 
amounting  to : 

Corporate  $157,723,809.13 

Individual 164,701,797.85 

Total $322,425,606.98 

Twenty-two  dry  states  paid  : 

Corporate  $  21,849.078.73 

Individual 12,651.542.19 

Total    ^  34,500,620.92 

The  figures  of  contribution  to  the  Red  Cross  are 
equally  interesting : 

The  "wet"  states  contributed $104,259,014.00 

The  "drv"  states  contributed 14,375,322.00 


ANTI-SALOON  LEAGUE  MAP. 

IT  is  not  unlikely  that  those  who  are  fighting  the 
saloon  may  be  fooled  by  "signs  of  victory"  in  the 
maps  showing  dry  territory. 

White  or  "dry"  territory  on  prohibition  maps  usually 
represents  farm  lands,  while  black  or  "wet"  areas  repre- 
sent conjestcd  populations. 

Only  about  20  per  cent  of  the  population  in  dry  states 
live  in  cities.  Whereas  in  the  wettest  states  in  this 
country  about  75  per  cent  live  in  the  cities. 

One-fourth  of  all  the  people  in  the  United  States 
living  in  wet  territory  live  in  six  cities — New  York, 
Chicago,  Philadelphia,  St.  Louis,  Boston  and  Cleveland. 
One-half  of  the  people  in  license  territory  hve  in  four 
states — New  York,  Pennsylvania,  Illinois  and  New 
Jersey. — Burlington   (Vt.)  Democrat. 

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"DRYS"  TURN  DOWN  RED  CROSS. 

WHEN  Col.  F.  W.  Galbraith,  commanding  the  First 
Regiment,  Ohio  National  Guards,  asked  James 
A.  White,  Superintent  of  the  Ohio  Anti-Saloon 
League,  to  call  off  the  1917  campaign  for  a  prohibition 
amendment  in  the  Buckeye  State  and  give  to  the  Red 
Cross  the  money  which  the  drys  had  planned  to  spend 
for  the  election,  the  suggestion  was  promptly  turned 
down.  L.  H.  Gibson,  manager  of  the  Ohio  Home  Rule 
Association,  on  behalf  of  the  wets,  agreed  to  donate 
tliis  sum  to  the  worthy  cause. 

The  reason  for  the  drys'  refusal  is  best  explained  by 
the  words  of  Rev.  'Hovcy  Matthews,  of  Montclair. 
N.  J.,  who  wrote  a  letter  to  the  AVw  York  World 
criticising  the  efforts  of  that  great  paper  to  remove  the 
blockade  raised  by  the  Anti-Saloon  League  in  insisting 
that  a  national  prohibition  clause  be  included  in  the 
Federal  Food  Bill,  while  the  life  of  the  nation  was  at 
^takc.     The  irate  preacher  wrote: 

"We  are  fighting  hell  and  the  devil  and  have 
no   time    for  your   puny   little   wars." 


THE    CATHOLIC   POSITION. 

THROUGHOUT  the  vacillation  of  public  opinion. 
Catholics  in  general  have  clung  to  a  position 
I'ouiulcd  not  on  emotionalism,  but  solid  reason.  It 
need  hardly  be  restated  that  no  Catholic  can  hold  any- 
thing that  exists,  to  be  the  creation  of  the  devil.  Every- 
thing that  is,  including  even  alcohol  and  the  various 
substances  from  which  it  is  derived,  is  the  work  of 
God.  to  whom  pertains  exclusively  the  power  of  crea- 
tion. Nor  can  any  Catholic  argue  that  the  use  of 
alcohol,  taking  the  term  in  the  sense  of  "intoxicating 
liquor,"  is  prohibited  either  by  the  natural  law,  the 
Commandments  of  God.  or  by  the  Church.  Since  this 
is  true,  neither  the  manufacture,  sale  nor  use  of  alco- 
hol is.  in  itself,  morally  wrong.  In  this  connection 
the  maxim  of  the  moralists,  "abustis  tion  toHit  usum," 
"an  abuse  does  not  destroy  legitimate  use,"  is  fully 
applicable.  Although  all  may  be,  and  frequently  arc. 
employed,  for  murder  and  other  malign  purposes,  the 
state  does  not  prohibit  the  manufacture  of  revolvers 
or  dynamite,  or  the  preparation  of  poisons.  In  them- 
selves these  things  are  indifferent.  "Morality"  attaches 
to  them,  only  in  an  extended  sense,  drawn  from  the 
good  or  bad  will  of  the  user. — From  "America."  a  lead- 
ing  Catholic   journal. 

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PAST  WAR  DEBTS  PAID  BY  LIQUOR 
INDUSTRY. 

MORE  than  six  billion  dollars  has  been  paid  to  this 
Government  by  the  liquor  industry.  The  total 
revenue  paid  the  Government  exceeds  the  total 
cost  of  the  Revolutionary',  Civil  and  Spanish-American 
wars.  According  to  the  estimate  of  Albert  Bushnell 
Hart,  Ph.  D.,  in  the  "Formation  of  the  Union,"  the 
cost  of  the  Revolutionarv  War  from  1775  to  1782 
amounted  to  $135,000,000.  ' 

According  to  the  New  York  World  Almanac  esti- 
mate, the  Civil  War,  1861  to  1865,  totaled  $5,000,000,000. 

The  same  authority  credits  the  Spanish-American 
War  with  $1,165,000,000. 

Not  only  has  the  liquor  industry  paid  past  war  debts, 
but  it  is  now  ready  to  pay  the  nation's  part  of  the 
present  world  conflict.  Perhaps  it  is  easier  to  estimate 
this  when  it  is  known  that  the  annual  revenue  paid 
the  Government  by  the  liquor  industry  now  exceeds 
the  total  annual  interest  on  the  new  $7,000,000,000  war 
loan. 

VIRGINIA  ELECTS  LIBERAL  GOVERNOR. 

VIRGINIA,  the  last  of  the  southern  states  to  fall  to 
the  prohibitionists,  is  the  first  to  show  signs  of 
recovery.  At  the  November,  1917,  election,  West- 
moreland Davis,  a  prosperous  farmer,  who  ran  on  a 
"Common  Sense"  platform,  which  was  wholly  distaste- 
ful to  the  group  of  Democratic  leaders,  preaclier  poli- 
ticians and  professional  reformers  recruited  under  the 
banner  of  the  Anti-Saloon  League,  was  easily  elected 
governor  of  the  "Old  Dominion." 


DR.  WILEY   ON   PROHIBITION. 

DR.  HARVEY  W.  WILEY,  pure  food  authority,  is 
a  prohibitionist  but  not  a  hypocrite.  Writing  for 
Good  Housekeeping,  he  remarked  : 
"We  expect  to  enlist  the  whole  nation  in  a  food- 
saving  campaign  to  furnish  food  to  England  and  our 
other  allies.  We  w-ho  make  the  food  may  not  use  it 
for  alcoholic  drink,  but  the  food  we  send'  to  England 
may  be  used  for  that  purpose.  This  doesn't  look  to 
me  like  fighting  fair. 

"How  far  is  this  sentiment  of  prohibition  real  senti- 
ment, and  how  far  is  it  politics?  For  my  part,  I  have 
no  sympathy  with  and  but  little  use  for  the  political 
prohibitionist." 

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LABOR   FIGHTS  PROHIBITION. 

NEW  YORK,  January  20.— Organized  labor 
today  began  the  fight  against  nation-wide 
prohibition  when  copies  of  Samuel  Gom- 
pers'  manifest'O  were  sent  to  2,000,000  members 
of  the  American  Federation.  Mr.  Gompers 
characterized  prohibitionists  as  "neither  wise, 
practical  nor  patriotic."  He  declares  pract/cal 
prohibition  has  been  settled  during  the  war  by 
special  powers  given  President  Wilson.  The 
prohibition  campaign,  he  said,  tends  only  to 
divert  the  m-inds  of  the  people  from  the  war. 

Two  million  workers,  he  said,  will  be  thrown 
out  of  work  if  the  constitutional  amendment  is 
ratified. — Chicago  Examiner. 


"DRY"  LAWS  HIT  WORKERS. 

JAMES  W.  BOW  LEX.  of  Indianapolis,  well  known 
labor  writer  and  speaker,  declares : 
"A  stereotyped  statement  frequently  made  by  the 
I)rohihitionists  is  to  the  cITect  that  the  w'orkinpman  will 
1)C  much  better  off  with  the  abolition  of  the  saloon,  that 
the  25  or  50  cents  spent  each  week  for  beer  would  be 
converted  into  other  channels,  sueh  as  shoes,  dr>'  poods, 
etc.  A  frequent  illustration  used  is  that  the  prohibition 
speaker  knows  of  a  man  who  used  to  spend  his  money 
over  the  bar,  but  now,  since  his  emancipation  from 
drink,  he  is  spending  it  for  other  things,  has  more 
and  better  clothes,  etc.  This  may  be  certainly  true  of 
the  one  individual.  The  prohibitionist  is  an  analogous 
reasoner,  which  is  the  reasoning  method  of  the  savage, 
that  what  is  or  can  be  true  of  the  one  is  and  will  be 
true  of  all,  and  bases  his  arguments  along  this  line. 
The  absolute  fallacy  of  this  method  of  reasoning  must 
he  apparent  to  any  thinking  person. 

"Now,  what  is  the  cost  of  the  production  of  labor 
power.  It  is  not  the  actual  co>;t  of  the  stern  necessities 
of  life,  for  we  all  know  that  all  workmen  could  live  on 
less  than  on  what  they  do  now — plain,  coarse  food,  such 
as  black  bread  and  potatoes,  a  house  with  inexpensive 
furniture,  clothing  of  the  simplest  and  most  unorna- 
mental  kind  would  be  all  that  would  be  necessary  to 
keep  the  work-man  in  good  working  co.ndition.  The 
luxuries  of  the  theater,  cigars  and  beer  are  unessen- 
tial in  keeping  the  workingman  in  working  condition. 
«2 


While  they  satisfy  the  workman  and  contribute  to  his 
mental  happiness,  they  are  luxuries. 

"The  average  workman  wants  these  luxuries  and  has 
been  accustomed  to  them  for  so  long  that  they  have  be- 
come a  part  of  his  life,  i.  e..  they  satisfy  a  mental  crav- 
ing, not  a  physical  one,  and  he  figures  on  them  in  his 
estimate  of  the  things  he  must  have  in  order  to  enjoy 
life.  We  find  that  while  he  desires  more  wages,  his 
wages  never  go  above  the  point  of  the  standard  of  living 
that  prevails  in  the  country  in  which  he  works. 

"This  standard  of  living  is  a  sum  total  of  necessities 
and  luxuries  that  he  has  been  accustomed  to,  and  when- 
ever the  standard  of  living  is  reduced  by  the  elimination 
of  the  luxuries,  where  the  tendency  is  to  more  and  more 
reduce  the  standard  of  living  to  the  physical  necessities, 
there  we  find  the  competition  between  the  workers,  for 
the  job  forces  the  wages  down  to  the  point  where  they 
get  only  enough  to  buy  that  standard  of  living. 

"Now  if  all  working  men  in  this  country  would  lower 
the  standard  of  living,  if  they  would  eliminate  the 
luxuries,  if  they  would  drop  from  their  bill  of  fare,  the 
theaters,  the  cigars  and  the  glass  of  beer,  or  any  other 
luxuries,  either  by  voluntary  action  as  a  class  and  not  as 
one  individual  here  and  there,  but  as  a  class,  ©r  if  by 
legislation  the  beer  or  cigars  or  theaters  would  become 
non-existent  so  that  these  luxuries  would  become  a 
thing  of  the  past,  competition  between  them  for  the  job 
would  force  their  wages  down  to  this  new  and  lower 
standard  of  living,  a  standard  that  would  mean  only  the 
stern  necessities  of  life  and  this  interpretation  makes 
clear  why  so  many  of  the  big  business  interests  rally 
around  the  Anti-Saloon  League  Banner." 


GOMPERS  ON  PROHIBITION. 

"  A  S  a  result  of  my  travels  in  several  countries,  my 
^\^  observation  and  study  of  prohibition  by  law  of 
the  liquor  business  is  not  a  blessing,  as  its  ad- 
vocates declare,  but  a  curse.  Prohibition  has  not,  and 
does  not,  make  men  abstainers  or  even  temperate,  but 
in  addition  to  increasing  intemperance,  rnakes  men, 
otherwise  law-abiding,  law-breakers.  There  is  no  power 
more  potent  to  make  men  temperate,  not  only  in  drink- 
ing, but  in  all  things  of  life,  than  the  organized  labor 
movement,  which  secures  for  the  workers  the  shorter 
work  day,  higher  wages  better  working  conditions  and 
better  surroundings  in  their  homes.  The  liquor  busi- 
ness requires  just  and  fair  regulation — prohibition  is  un- 
fair, unjust  and  makes  for  unfreedom  and  is  anti- 
Americanism." 


LINES    OF    INDUSTRY    INJURED    BY 
PROHIBITION. 


Beer  Pump  Mfrs. 

Bottle  Cap  Mfrs. 

Bottle   Machinery  Mfrs. 

Bottle  Makers. 

Box  Makers. 

Brass  Workers. 

Brewers. 

Bread  Maker.-. 

Butchers. 

Carpenters. 

Cask  Mfrs. 

Charcoal  Mlrs. 

Coal  Dealfers. 

Coal  Miners. 

Commercial  Agencies. 

Coopers. 

Coppersmiths. 

Cork  Cutters. 

Cork  Dealers. 

c;igar  Dealers. 

Cigar  Mfrs. 

Cracker  Bakers. 

Delicatessen  Dealers. 

Disinfectant   Mfrs.  and 

Dealers. 
Distillers. 
Kngine  Builders. 
Farmers. 
Filter  Mfrs. 
Fixture   Alfrs, 
Foundries. 
Glassware    Dealers. 
Glassware  Mfrs. 
Grain  Dealers. 
Grain  Elevators. 
Grape  Growers. 
Hardware  Dealers. 
Hardware  Mfrs. 
Harness  Makers. 


Horse  Dealers. 

Horseshoers. 

Ice  Machine  Mfrs. 

Ice  Dealers. 

Ice  Mfrs. 

Iron  Hoop  Mfrs. 

Lithographers. 

Liquor  Dealers. 

Maltsters. 

Meat  Dealers. 

Motor  Truck  Mfrs. 

Motor  Tnick   Dealers. 

Musical   Instruments. 

Xail   Mfrs.  ;wid  Dealers 

Oil   Refiners  and   Dealers. 

Paint   Mfrs.   and   Dealers. 

Painters. 

Paper  Mfrs. 

Pipe  Fitters  and  Plumhers 

Pipe  Mfrs. 

Potters. 

Pump   Mfrs. 

Pretzel   Makers. 

Printers. 

Printers'   Ink    Mfrs. 

Railroads. 

Real   Estate. 

Refrigerator  Mfrs. 

Seal  Mfrs. 

Sign  Mfr>. 

Stationer^;. 

Talking  Machines,  etc. 

Tank  liuildcrs. 

Teamsters. 

Telopiione. 

Tohacco  (i rowers. 

Tobacco  Dealers. 

Wagon  Makers. 

Wine   Makers. 


HE.'WEN  is  going  to  prove  an  awful  disappoint- 
ment to  the  professional  agitator  when  he  dis- 
covers that  they  do  not  hold  a  yearly  "wet"  and 
"dry"  election  up  there.— "/.uAv  McLukc."  vi  Cinciinmt\ 
I'vquircr. 

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ANTI-SALOON  LEAGUE  AND 
STANDARD  OIL. 

IS  the  Anti-Saloon  League  an  agent  of  the  Standard 
Oil  Company?      A  recent  article  in  the  Neiv  York 
World  said  that  this  would  be  one  of  the  allegations 
during  a   proposed    Congressional   in^  estigation    of   the 
organization.     According  to  th^e  JVorld — 

Charges  to  be  made  against  the  League  are  : 

1.  That  it  is  not  a  sincere  institution,  but  one 
owned  and  controlled  by  a  few  men  who  have  high 
"salaries  and  other  advantages.  Although  working 
in  the  name  of  prohibition,  it  is  declared  to  be 
opposed  to  straight-out  prohibition. 

2.  That  it  is  an  agent  of  the  Standard  Oil  Com- 
pany in  opposition  to  organized  labor. 

3.  That  it  maintains  a  system  for  the  purpose  of 
influencing  men  and  conditions  in  both  church  and  state. 

4.  That  it  uses  the  housewives  of  the  nation  and 
children  in  starting  boycotts  of  trade  in  order  to  swing 
influential  business  men  to  support  the  immediate  prop- 
osition it  has  in  hand  to  work  out  in  the  community, 
state  or  nation.  * 

5.  That  it  fakes  petitions  to  Legislators  and  Con- 
gressmen, 

G.  That  it  makes  threats  to  force  prospective  legisla- 
tive officials  to  "bind  themselves  by  secret  pledges"  to 
support  the  measures  it  undertakes. 

Some  of  the  men  in  its  Washington  lobby  are  said  to 
draw  nearly  three  times  as  much  money  as  members  of 
Congress.  '  With  a  total  income  of  $1,200,000,  of  which 
$800,000  is  said  to  be  guaranteed  at  the  beginning  of 
each  year,  the  league  has  an  unlimited  source  of  supply. 

From  the  time  of  its  creation  in  1902  at  Berlin,  Ohio, 
with  Dr.  Howard  as  the  first  president,  the  charge  is 
made  that  its  operations  have  not  been  purely  altruistic. 
It  is  declared  that  men  have  grown  rich  since  they 
afliliated  with  it. 

The  League  and  Labor. 

It  was  pointed  out  today  that  the  League  has  always 
been  active  in  state  legislatures  when  labor  questions 
were  being  agitated.  This  was  noticeable  when  the 
prohibition  fight  in  Colorado  served  to  draw  attention 
away  from  the  controversy  between  the  Rockefeller  in- 
terests and  the  miners.  In  other  states  prohibition 
measures,  it  is  declared,  have  crowded  into  the  legisla- 
tive "hoppers"  ahead  of  labor  measures.     Concerns  that 

GO 


have   fought  organized   labor  have  contributed  to  pro- 
hibition in  the  name  of  the  Anti-Saloon  League. 

One  of  the  League's  methods  to  secure  support,  it  is 
charged,  is  through  a  plan  of  boycotting  worked  out 
through  auxiliary  organizations  of  women  and  children. 
Housewives  by  this  scheme  are  organized  to  ascertain 
from  grocerymen  in  small  towns  if  they  will  support 
the  League,  the  inference  being  that  trade  will  be  lost 
if  support  is  not  given. 


REMEDY  FOR  INTEMPERANCE. 

THE  real   retnedy   for  intemperance   wherever 
it   mav   exist,   is    summed    up    in    the    state- 
ment of  President  Gompers,  as   follows: 
a     Increasing  wages, 
b     Shorter  hours  of  work. 

c     More  leisure,  so  as  to  afford  an  opportunitv 
for  the  cultivation  of: 

1.  Better  tastes. 

2.  Better  aspirations. 

3.  Higher  ideals. 

4.  Better  standards  of  living. 

.').     Freedom  from  the  burden  of  excessive  toil. 
(>.     Better  homes  and    surroundings   for   work- 
in  j:  men. 


WHO   FOOTS   "DRY"   BILLS? 

E\  FRY  year  the  Anti-Saloon  League  of  America 
spends  at  least  a  million  and  a  half  dollars 
Where  does  this  monev  come  from?  From  the 
friends  of  labor,  or  from  its  enemies?  The  follow- 
ing statement  from  former  Representative  Warren 
Worth  Bailey,  of  Pennsylvania,  may  serve  to  throw 
>ome  light  on  the  subject. 

"I  say  I  do  not  know  whence  all  this  sudden  clamor 
has  come.  But  let  me  state  right  here,  that  if  I  were 
as  deeply  interested  as  a  Rockefeller,  a  Frick,  a  Morgan, 
a  Weyerhaeuser,  or  a  Havemeycr  in  the  maintenance 
of  things  as  they  are,  I  should  not  discourage  this 
propaganda.  1  should  be  more  than  willing  to  contrib- 
ute liberally  in  promo-ting  it." 

The  same  line  of  thought  is  found  in  this  editorial 
in  the  New  Orleans  Labor  Ri'cord: 

"You   know   that   the   lowest   wages  in   the   world   arc 
r.6 


paid  in  those  countries,  like  China  and  India,  where 
intoxicating  liquors  are  unknown. 

"You  know  that  the  Prohibition  agitation  is  encour- 
aged and  supported  by  those  who  wish  to  sidetrack  the 
great  organized  movement  for  the  betterment  of  labor 
conditions. 

"You  know  that  if  the  Prohibition  advocates  suc- 
ceed in  convincing  the  people  of  the  United  States  that 
the  evils  of  which  you  complain  are  due  to  intemper- 
ance in  your  own  ranks  you  will  never  be  able  to 
achieve  the  results  you  hope  to  accomplish. 


LIQUOR  AND  ACCIDENTS. 

A  STUDY  of  the  Causes  of  Industrial  Acci'dents," 
issued   by   the   American    Statistical    Association, 
refutes  the  prohibition  theory  that  liq-uor  is  the 
cause  of  accidents. 

After  quoting  official  statistics  from  reports  issued 
by  various  industrial  boards  of  New  York,  New  Jer- 
sey, Massachusetts,  Wisconsin,  California  and  Wash- 
ington, the  author  sums  up  the  matter  as  follows: 

"The  returns  show  that  deliberate  recklessness  or 
intoxication  is  not  frequent  as  a  cause  of  accidents, 
in  fact  is  so  exceedingly  slight  as  not  to  require  serious 
consideration  in  the  analysis  of  the  immense  number 
of  accidents  occurring  in  the  United  States  annually. 
This  conclusion  seems  to  be  further  borne  out  by  the 
statistics  in  the  Federal  report  dealing  with  the  cases 
under  the  United  States  Workmen's  Compensation  Act 
of  1908.  Of  406  contested  cases  in  four  years  (in  the 
total  number  of  accidents,  the  majority  of  the  claims 
of  which  were  allowed)  negligence  or  miscondiK:t  \yas 
alleged  in  80  cases,  and  in  only  one  was  intoxication 
charged,  and  that  charge  was  not  substantiated  by  the 
courts." 

10,000,000  MOUTHS  TO  FEED. 

"T~\0  you  know  that  the  production  and  distribution 
I  J  of  alcoholic  beverages  altogether  give  employ- 
ment directly  to  1,200,000  people,  representing  a 
population  of  6,000,000  out  of  a  total  population  of 
the  United  States  of  98,000,000?  And  if  we  figure 
those  who  would  be  indirectly  affected,  the  number 
employed  would  reach  about  2,000,000,  representing  a 
population  of  about  10,000,000?"— Philadelphia  Sunday 
Dispatch. 


/ 


MEANS  UNEMPLOYMENT  AND  LOW 
WAGES. 

THE  fi«3t  effect  of  prohibition  legislation  upon  the 
workers  will  be  to  compel  a  considerable  num- 
ber of  them  to  seek  employment  in  other  lines 
of  human  effort,  where  they  will  more  than  likely 
find  the  ranks  already  overcrowded.  It  is  folly  to 
assert  that  these  workers  who  have  been  thrown  out 
into  the  labor  market  can  find  employment  in  other 
lines,  for  the  very  simple  reason  that  all  other  lines  are 
fully  manned  already,  and  there  is  still  a  surplus  of 
labor  in  the  market.  The  actual  effect  of  prohibition, 
if  it  were  real  and  complete,  would  be  to  increase  the 
surplus  labor  in  the  market,  and,  therefore,  tend  to 
depress  the  price,  that  is.  force  waives  down. — British 
C  ohini hiii  hcdcrai ion ist 


AVERAGE   COST   OF   DRINK   TO   AMERICAN 
FAMILY   IS  LOW. 

A  BULLETIN  from  Washington  tells  of  an  inter- 
esting report  on  tiie  average  cost  of  drink  to 
families  that  use  intoxicating  liquors.  This  report 
was  issued  by  the  Department  of  Labor.  It  was  found 
that  out  of  3,200  family  budgets  examined  1.329  were 
found  to  use  intoxicants  at  an  a\  erage  cost  a  family  of 
."r  19.00  a  year. 

In  the  second  investigation,  o,284  family  budgets  were 
examined,  and  1,735  families  were  found  to  have  spent 
$29.74  a  year  each  for  iinoxicating  liquor.  In  the  third 
instance  2,o(J7  famil\  expenditures  were  looked  into, 
and  1,302  families  were  found  to  spend  an  average  of 
•t24.r>3  a  year  for  intoxicants. 


LABOR   AGAINST   PROHIBITION. 

01v<.\XlZEl)  labor  throughout  the  United  Slates 
has  taken  up  the  fight  against  the  nat-ional  dry 
amendment.  Already  the  State  Labor  Federation 
in  twenty- four  leading  industrial  states  has  taken  a 
stand  against  national  prohibition  and  have  or  will  come 
out  openly  in  the  fight  to  prevent  ratification  of  the 
amendment  by  state  legislatures. 

The  State  Labor  Federations  of  the  leading  industrial 
states,  including  Ohio,  Massachusetts,  Rhode  Island. 
Pennsylvania,  New  York,  New  Jersey  and  California, 
have  gone  to  the  front  to  fight  tlie  national  dry  amend- 
ment. 

08 


WHO'LL  GET  THE  MONEY? 

THE  American  Economic  League  has  given  out  the 
following  statement  replying  to  Charles  H.  Rand- 
all, Prohibition  Congressman  from  California : 
Prospective  nation-wide  prohibition  should  cause 
serious  consideration  of  figures  presented  by  Congress- 
man Charles  H.  Randall,  of  California,  in  a  speech  in 
the  House  on  June  7.  Mr.  Randall  claims  that  the 
li(luor  traffic  retards  wealth  production  in  the  United 
States  to  the  extent  of  $3,781,097,500  a  year.  Pro- 
hibition, he  holds,  will  remove  the  obstruction  and 
resulting  increase  in  w'ealth  will  make  it  an  easy  matter 
for  the  Government  to  secure  from  other  sources  rev- 
enue now  derived  from  liquor. 

Mr.  Randall  does  not  tell  to  whom  this  prospective 
vast  increase  in  wealth  production  is  to  go.  That  is  a 
very  serious  neglect,  because  if  the  deficit  is  to  be  made 
up  out  of  this  increase,  then  it  is  important  to  know 
where  it  may  be. 

Means  New  Taxes. 

It  may  be  possible  to  show  that  the  increase  consists 
in  money  saved  that  would  otherwise  have  been  spent 
for  liquor,  in  greater  production  by  those  previously 
rendered  inefficient  through  drink,  and  in  reduced  cost 
of  living  by  increasing  the  supply  of  foodstuffs  to  the 
extent  of  grain  and  other  commodities  previously  used 
in  liquor  manufacture.  However,  it  does  not  neces- 
sarily follow  that  those  Avho  thus  save,  or  become  more 
efficient,  will  be  better  off  financially.  Improvements 
and  inventions  have  been  introduced  before  this  w^hich 
have  made  for  efficiency  and  economy.  But  they  have 
invariably  caused  land  values  to  rise  at  the  same  time, 
so  that  in  the  long  run  the  landowner  got  most  of  the 
financial  benefits.  Has  Mr.  Randall  any  reason  to  be- 
lieve that  the  same  result  will  not  follow  from  prohibi- 
tion? And  if  the  people  must  pay  in  increased  rent, 
what  they  formerly  paid  liquor  dealers,  will  it  not  be 
an  added  burden  to  them  should  new  taxes  be  put  on 
labor  products  to  make  up  for  liquor  revenue? 


TWO  MILLION  OPPOSE  PROHIBITION. 

TWO     million     American     workmen,     belonging     to 
unions,  in  a  petition  appealed  to  President  Wilson 
to     stand     against     any     legislative     action    which 
would  deprive  them  of  the  privilege  of  a  "glass  of  beer'* 
during     or     after     the     war. — Cincinnati     Commercial 
Tribune. 


SICKNESS   POVERTY   CAUSE. 

UNDER  the  caption  of  "Poverty  and  Sickness,"  the 
Gloz'crsville  {N.  Y.)  Herald  contained  the  follow- 
ing editorial  showing  liquor  as  an  insignificant 
factor  in  the  cause  of  crime  : 

What  is  the  most  prolific  cause  of  poverty?  The 
prohibitionist  is  accustomed  to  say,  unhesitatingly, 
"alcohol."  The  New  York  Association  for  Improving 
the  Condition  of  the  Poor,  in  its  report  for  the  past 
year,  gives  a  different  answer.     It  is  illness. 

The  preponderance  of  that  cause  over  all  others  is 
astonishing.  The  association  says  that  96  per  cent  of 
the  destitution  in  the  metropolis  was  caused  by  the 
sickness  of  wage-earners.  The  other  1  per  cent  was 
divided  among  alcoholism,  wife-desertion  and  non-sup- 
port, delinqu-ency,  old  age  and  unemployment. 


PREACHER-POLITICIANS. 

PREACHER-POLITICIANS  who  specialize  in  pro- 
hibition and  attending  to  other  people's  affairs  re- 
ceive   a    severe    scoring    from    the    International 
Musician,  official  organ  of  the  American  Federation  of 
Musicians.     The  Musician  says: 

"The  people  behind  the  present  vicious  agitation  in 
favor  of  prohibition  are  a  lot  of  ex-preachers  in  the 
employ  of  the  Anti-Saloon  League,  an  organization 
financed  by  a  few  extremely  wealthy  men  and  corpora- 
tions, who  have  amassed  their  great  wealth  by  ruthless 
and  often  dishonest  methods  that  would  not  stand  close 
scrutiny,  and  to  prevent  such  scrutiny  have  succeeded 
in  raising  the  tremendous  turmoil  on  the  'Demon  Rum' 
(luestion." 


PROHIBITION   FORCES   UP   TAXES. 

CONCORD.  N.  H.— Because,  after  May  1,  the 
county  of  Merrimac  will  no  longer  be  in 
receipt  of  revenue  from  licenses  for  the 
sale  of  liquer,  a  general  boost  in  the  direct  tax 
for  the  support  of  the  county  finances  has  been 
made.  The  city  of  Concord  received  notice  to- 
day that  its  assessment  will  be  $45,546.36,  against 
>"i:i.!X'7.76  in  the  previous  yc:\r. —  Foston  Globe 


DR.  JACOBI  DEFENDS  ALCOHOL. 

IN  the  New  York  Times  Magazine,  Dr.  Abraham 
Tacobi,  famous  New  York  physician,  thus  defends 
alcohol  as  absolutely  necessary  in  medical  practice  : 

"The  very  fact  that  alcohol  is  recognized  as  a  valu- 
able dietetic  resource  and  a  precious  remedy  in  disease- 
has  been  the  cause  of  its  being  criticized.  It  is  natural 
that  its  frequent  use  may  lead  to  abuse.  It  is  true, 
however,  that  its  legitimate  employment  as  a  pharma- 
ceutical remedy  has  not  caused  a  visible  damage,  yet 
the  facility  of  obtaining  it  for  improper  uses  has  caused 
untold  adversaries. 

"Physicians  have  always  found  alcohol  a  valuable, 
aye,  an  indispensable,  remedy.  There  is  hardly  a 
human  organism  which  is  not  favorably  influenced ; 
mainly  the  aged,  feeble,  fat,  and  convalescent  feel  its 
benefactions. 

"The  value  of  alcohol  should  not  be  estimated  or 
supposed,  but  studied  and  demonstrated.  A  prohibi- 
tion movement  kept  up  by  '400,000  women'  is  no  proof. 
Nor  are  600  Congressmen  capable  of  deciding  a  scien- 
tific problem,   though   fortified   by  a  caucus." 

Quoting  F.  Penzoldt's  seventh  edition  (1908)  of 
"Clinical  (Medicinal)  Treatment"  Dr.  Jacobi  added: 
"Alcohol  in  the  shape  of  alcoholic  beverages  in  indi- 
vidualizing administration,  is  an  invaluable  remedy  in 
the  treatment  of  numerous,  mostly  feverish,  diseases, 
particularly  in  cardiac  debility ;  it  is  very  much  ad- 
ministered externally." 

ASPIRIN  AND  BRANDY. 

By  a  Special  Correspondent  of  the  Milwaukee 
Journal,  in  France. 

WHAT  is  the  most  important  thing  lacking  in  the 
American  army?"  I  a.sked  of  an  especially 
-      frank  officer. 

"You  would  not  publish  it  if  I  told  you,"  he  answered. 

"Try  me,"  I  said.  , 

"All  right,"  was  the  answer.  "Everybody  knows  that 
no  army  ever  has  enough  drugs  such  as  aspirin  to 
counteract  the  influence  of  colds  brought  on  her'^  in 
northern  France  by  standing  knee-deep  for  hours  in 
water  and  mud.  Just  suggest  to  our  good,  comfortable, 
well-fed  people  back  in  the  States  the  need  of  some- 
times giving  these  wet  and  chilled  soldiers  a  drink  of 
brandy  or  some  other  alcoholic  stimulant.  Why,  they 
would  rise  up  and  storm  Washington." — Mihvaukee 
Journal,  January  29,  1918. 


MEDICINAL  VALUE   OF  ALCOHOL. 

BEVERLY  ROBINSON,  M.  D.,  of  New  York,  writ- 
ing to  The  CJiurcJimaii,  has  this  to  say  on  the 
medical  use  of  alcohol : 

"I  am  confident,  from  a  long  and  varied  medical  ex- 
perience, that  it  is  unwise  to  interdict  the  use  of  alcohol 
in  time  of  illness.  I  am  also  convinced  that  a  moderate 
use  of  wine  and  beer  is  often  essential  to  health  to 
persons  as  they  grow  old.  \\  ine  is  indeed  frequently 
the  oil  of  old  age  and  should  not  be  denied  by  any 
narrow  partisanship. 

"The  fact  that  there  are  some  among  medical  men 
of  our  day  who  uphold  prohibition  is  to  me  lamentable 
and  irrational.  I  infer  that  they  have  not  had  that 
experience  at  the  bedside  in  time  of  severe  or  imminent 
illness,  which  would  suffice  to  change  their  faith. 

"When  one  has  many  times  seen  life  restored  by 
good  brandy  or  whiskey,  in  diphtheria,  typhoid  fever, 
and  above  all,  pneumonia,  he  fails  absolutely  to  endorse 
an  obsession  of  the  times." 


WHISKEY  FOR  DIABETES. 

AN  ounce  of  whiskey  .idmini-tered  four  times  a  d.i> 
in  comiection  with  a  starvation  treatment,  eatinu 
every  eighth  day — was  ad\ocated  as  a  cure  for 
diabetes  by  Dr.  Joseph  Kat/  at  a  meeting  of  the  Cin- 
cinnati Medical  Society  at  Hotel  'iibson  Friday  night. 
He  said  three  cases  had  been  cured  by  such  trcatnu-nt 
—  C'vuiiinati  Commercial   Tribune. 


WOULD  BAN  ALL   SHOWS. 

THE  prohibitionists*  war  on  individual  liberty  began 
with   a  crusade   against   liquor;    then   they   fought 
tobacco;    next    Sunday    baseball    and    moving   pic- 
tures ;  and  now  they  intend  to  try  to  close  all  theaters. 
United    States    Senator    Porter    McCumbcr,    of    "dry" 
North  Dakota,  recently  said,  in  Congress : 

"The  best  thing  that  could  ever  happen  to  the  Ameri- 
can people  would  be  the  closing  of  every  theater  and 
place  of  amusement  in  the  United  States  for  ten  years. 
There  should  be  a  closed  season  that  would  allow  the 
people  to  regain  some  of  their  did  stability,  some  of 
their  old  composure,  that  would  allow  them  time  to  ac- 
custom their  minds  to  the  consideration  of  the  real 
things  in  life  rather  than  the  artificial  things."— ^owi'.v- 
I'iUe  (  ourier-J ourual. 


PROHIBITION  AND  DRUGS. 

IN  an  interview  in  the  Denver  (Colo.)  Post,  the  Right 
Rev.  C.  H.  Brant,  Episcopal  Bishop  of  Manila,  said : 
"In  the  southern  states,  where  prohihition  has  almost 
become  universal,  the  increase  in  the  sale  of  drugs  per 
'capita  is  greater  than  the  increase  in  population.  The 
legitimate  amount  of  opium  calculated  as  absolutely 
necessary  for  medical  and  commercial  purposes  for  one 
year's  consumption  is  60,000  pounds.  Last  year  over 
480,000  pounds  'were  brought  into  the  United  States 
through  the  custom  house.  This,  of  course,  does  not 
include  the  vast  amount  that  is  smuggled  over  the 
borders.  The  use  of  opium,  cocain  and  other  such 
drugs  is,  I  regret  to  say,  largely  on  the  increase  all  over 
the  United  States,  especially  in  localities  where  the  sale 
of  liquor  is  prohibited.  The  pure  food  laws  have  done 
good  work  regarding  the  sale  of  patent  medicines,  but 
the  drug  store  has  taken  the  place  of  the  saloon  in  many 
of  our  cities  where  the  sale  of  liquor  is  not  permitted." 
—Texas  Freeman,  Houston,  Texas. 


TEMPERANCE  OR  PROHIBITION? 

TEMPERANCE  is  self-imposed,  self-en- 
forced ;  prohibition  is  imposed  by  the  other 
fellow  without  3'our  consent  and  enforced 
by  the  policeman's  club.  Tem»perance  has  to  do 
with  your  controlling  yourself;  prohibition  has 
to  do  with  the  other  fellow's  control  of  you. 
Temperance  implies  and  permJts  use  in  modera- 
tion ;  prohibition  forbids  use  even  in  moderation. 
Temperance  is  a  Christian  virtue;  prohibition  a 
political  insanity.  Temperance  can  be  defended, 
it  cannot  be  attacked.  Prohibition  cannot  be  de- 
fended and  it  can  be  attacked  and  destroyed. 
When  two  principles  are  diametrically  and  etern- 
ally opposed  to  each  other,  both  cannot  be  right. 
We  know  that  temperance  is  right  and  it  is  the 
balance-wheel  of  civilization.  Temperance  is 
born  of  reason ;  prohibition  is  the  child  of  hys- 
teria. Every  argument  that  proves  temperance 
right  demonstrates  that  prohibition  is  wrong. — 
C.  A.  IViudle. 


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UNCLE  SAM  FURNISHES  WHISKEY  FOR 
BRITISH  TROOPS. 


England  Recognizes  Its  Great  Medicinal  Value  and 
Buys  Vast  Quantities  to  Be  Used  in  Trenches. 


Great  Britain  has  recognized  the  wonderful 
medicinal  value  of  whiskey  by  ordering  vast  quan- 
tities of  it  from  dealers  in  the  United  States  for 
the  use  of  English  soldiers.  The  English  want 
to  get  a  big  share  of  the  whiskey  before  it  is 
all  gone.  So  in  addition  to  furnishing  Great 
Britain  with  food,  Uncle  Sam  is  providing  our 
mother-country  with  whiskey  and  other  war- 
time necessities. 


Here's  the  Proof. 

Sf>ecial  Dispatch  to  the  Enquirer. 

Toronto.  Oxt..  February  20. — Twenty-five  thousand 
barrek  of  Kentucky  whiskey,  two  years  old  "or  better." 
has  been  ordered  by  the  British  Government  for  the 
use  of  men  at  the  front.  The  contract  was  awarded 
at  Montreal  today  by  the  British  Consular  Agent  there 
and  was  given  to  the  Distillers'  Securities  Corporation. 
The  price  to  be  paid  is  about  $')0  a  barrel. 

Liquor  interests  here  estimate  that  the  cost  of  manu- 
facturing this  whiskey  was  between  30  and  Ho  cents 
per  gallon,  so  that  the  net  profit  to  the  Distillers' 
Corporation  will  be  in  the  neighborhood  of  $1.00  a 
gallon  on  the  order,  or  a  total  profit  of  $1,100,000. 

For  some  time  past  even  friends  of  prohibition  have 
unhesitatingly  admitted  the  need  of  serving  liquor  to 
the  men  in  the  trenches,  and  returned  soldiers  have 
pointed  out  the  urgent  necessity  for  alcoholic  stimulant 
to  men  chilled  by  hours  and  sometimes  days  and  nights 
of  exposure  to  the  mud  and  water-soaked  trenches. 

During  the  first  year  or  so  of  hostilities  rum  rations 
were  served  out  at  regular  internals,  but  the  tremendous 
drain  upon  the  stocks  of  this  kind  of  liquor  has  decided 
the  Government  to  substitute  whiskey,  and  the  Ken- 
tucky product  was  decided  upon  as  the  most  whole- 
some in  the  market.— Ci«ri««a/i  Enquirer. 

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WINE  FOR  THE  FRENCH  ARMY. 

THE  following  account  of  how  carefully  wine  casks 
for  the  French  army  are  handled  is  an  excerpt 
from  "Feeding  a  Million,"  by  Eleanor  Franklin 
Egan,  in  the  Saturday  Evening  Post: 

French  wine  casks  are  magnificent  things.  They  are 
made  of  seasoned  wood.  The  older  they  get  the  better 
they  are.  New  wood  does  something  to  wine  that  it 
shouldn't;  I  do  not  know  what  it  is,  but  it  is  some- 
thing very  undesirable.  Now,  France  has  never  found 
it  necessary  before  to  transport  a  million  and  a  half 
liters  of  wine  in  casks  every  day,  and  the  question 
of  casks  is  a  serious  one.  The  wine  is  sent  from  the 
sources  of  supply  to  the  distribution  centers  in  large 
tanks  on  flat  cars. 

From  these  giant  casks  the  wine  is  pumped  into 
smaller  casks,  and  these  smaller  casks  go  to  the  front. 
In  the  big  wareroom  where  they  were  filling  these,  I 
noticed  the  sign  painted  on  each  end  of  each  of  them  : 
"Soldiers!  Attention!  If  You  Want  Wine,  Take  Care 
of  the  Casks!"     It  was  exclamatory — imperative. 

One  would  think  that  the  millions  of  poilus  would 
be  glad  to  get  their  wine  in  any  kind  of  receptacle. 
But  no;  even  to  bottle  it  is  an  offense.  The  French- 
man is  brought  up  from  infancy  on  his  light  native 
wine.  If  the  wine  was  not  properly  handled  there 
would  be  one  grand  ruction  in  the  ranks — and  a  sick 
French  army,  perhaps.  The  question  of  health  enters 
in   every  calculation  of  the  commissary  department. 


EMPEY  DEFENDS  LIQUOR. 

ARTHUR  G.  EMPEY,  an  American,  author  of 
"Over  the  Top,"  who  served  twenty-two  months 
with  the  British  Royal  Fusilleers  in  the  French 
trenches,  has  the  following  to  say  on  the  rum  ration  : 

"Prohibition  may  be  all  right  in  peace  times,  but  if 
you  are  ordered  to  capture  a  German  trench  when  you 
know  the  vast  majority  of  those  who  charge  will  never 
return,  the  portion  of  rum  the  Sergeant  serves  you 
before  you  go  'over  the  top'  is  the  most  welcome  offer- 
ing you  ever  received. 

"You  may  think  that  it  is  highly  immoral  to  give 
men  intoxicants  who  are  going  into  battle  and  likely  to 
be  in  another  world  before  time  for  the  next  drink.  1 
never  thought  so,  over  there.  I  remember  thinking  of 
one  man  in  America — no  need  to  name  him — whom  1 

7.5 


would  like  to  see  among  us  in  that  last  hour  before 
going  over  the  top,  with  a  bucket  of  grape  juice  on 
one  side  of  him  and  a  pannikin  of  rum  on  the  other — 
and  see  which  he  takes." 


PRIVATE  PEAT  FOLLOWS   SUIT. 

HAROLD  R.  PEAT,  a  young  Canadian  who  volun- 
teered and  went  to  France  early  in  the  v*:ar,  has 
published  a  book  of  his  experiences  in  the 
trenches,  in  which  he  says  that  a  "tot"  of  rum 
is  served  out  to  each  man  the  first  thing  every 
winter  morning.  "No  one  is  required  to  drink  it. 
but  our  commanders  and  army  surgeons  believe 
that  rum  is  necessary  to  the  health  of  the  soldier. 
We  gulp  it  down  when  half-fro;^cn  and  nearly  para- 
lyzed after  standing  a  night  in  mud  and  blood  and  ice 
often  to  the  waistline,  and  it  revives  us  as  tea,  cocoa 
or  coffee  could  never  do.  The  arguments  against  rum 
make  Mr.  Tommy  Atkins  tired,  and  I  may  say  that  I 
have  never  yet  seen  a  chaplain  refuse  his  ration.  If  a 
man  is  found  drunk  while  on  active  service,  he  is  liable 
to  court-martial  and  death.  A  few  years'  training  of 
this  kind  will  make  the  biggest  pre-war  drunkard  come 
back  home  a  sober  man." 


ALE  IN  ENGLAND. 

HOW  diversified  in  beliefs  and  practices  are  the 
Anglo-Saxon  peoples!  In  Oklahoma  the  law  for- 
bids the  manufacture  or  importation  of  wine  for 
sacramental  pur{)Oscs,  and  rigid  ritualists  are  fearing 
the  loss  of  their  immortal  souls.  In  Oregon  just  now 
a  citizen  has  gone  to  jail  because  he  made  wine  on  his 
farm  for  hi^  fn'nilv's  use  at  the  table.  Yet,  in  England, 
the  Mayor  of  Southport,  a  small  city  near  Liverpool,  is 
modestly  ai  knowlcdging  what  he  considers  a  virttious 
deed  of  ch.jrity  toward  the  aged  poor  of  that  place. 
It  is  the  age-long  custom  of  the  Mayor  annually  to  give 
these  aged  residents  a  dinner  in  the  name  of  the  com- 
munity. The  war  having  made  the  price  of  tea  pro- 
hibitive, the  Mayor  substituted  tankards  of  nut  brown 
ale,  which  tipple,  it  seems  from  reliable  accounts,  was 
vastly  enjoyed  by  the  guests  of  the  municipality  who 
called  down  a  blessing  upon  the  head  of  the  thonchtful 
Magistrate.  Speculation  is  forced  by  the  thought  of 
what  would  happen  to  the  Mayor  of  Tortland.  Ore.,  or 
Guthrie,  Okla.,  if  it  proved  impossible  to  secure  tea, 
coffee  or  so<la  water  and  be  served  beer  at  a  charity 
dinner.  There  was  once  a  wedding  feast  in  Galilee 
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where  the  supply  of  wine  ran  short — but  that's  another 
story.  It  is  quite  possible  that  in  the  near  future  Sec- 
retary of  War  Baker  will  be  memorialized  and  re- 
quested to  refuse  to  permit  American  soldiers  to  visit 
Southport  in  order  to  prevent  the  great-hearted  Mayor 
from  bestowing  upon  them  the  same  affection  he  dis- 
played toward  the  ancient  paupers  whose  lives  he  has 
undoubtedly  shortened  and  whose  morals  he  has  beyond 
question  poisoned. — Cincinnati  Enquirer. 


IN  THE  CITADEL  AT  VERDUN. 


Photo  from  Pictorial  Press. 

General  Dissolati,  Italian,  and  Albert  Thomas, 
French  Minister  of  Munitions,  lunching  with  General 
Dubois.  : 

U.  S.  SENATE  FINDS  DRINK  TALES 
ARE  FALSE. 

WASHINGTON,  January  10.— Senator  William  S. 
Kenyon,  of  Iowa,  told  the  Senate  today  of  his 
visit  to  the  front  in  France  and  the  conditions 
he  found  there. 

"The  stories  we  hear  in  this  country  of  drunken- 
ness in  the  American  forces  over  there  are  not  true," 
said  Mr.  Kenyon.  "I  am  considered  a  prohibition  crank, 
but  I  say  to  my  temperance  friends  they  should  not 
credit  the  drinking  tales  that  have  come  to  this  country. 
Now  and  then  one  sees  a  drunken  soldier  as  we  used 
to  see  a  drunken  Congressman,  but  that  is  all. 

"Gen.  Pershing  is  a  temperance  man,  and  he  knows 
far  better  how  to  handle  the  situation  than  people  in 
soft  chairs  over  here.  If  that  be  treason  to  my  prohi- 
bition friends,  let  them  make  the  most  of  it." — New 
York  World. 

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PERSHING  DEFENDS  "SAMMIES." 

A  FEW  weeks  ago  there  was  circulated  broadcast 
throughout  the  country  a  falsehood  uttered  by  the 
Board  of  Temperance.  Prohibition  and  Morals  of 
the  Methodist  Church  to  the  effect  that  drunkenness 
and  lust  were  destroying  the  American  army  in 
France.  The  slander  was  placed  in  thousands  of  homes 
and  received  extensive  notice  by  repeated  reference  to 
it  by  the  bureau  which  was  responsible  for  the  first 
issue. 

Subsequent  denials  came  from  military  and  civilian 
witnesses  of  conditions  in  France,  but  the  matter  was 
not  permitted  to  rest  upon  those  refutations.  Secretary 
of  War  Baker  began  an  investigation.  He  had  received 
a  letter  from  Governor  Capper,  of  Kansas,  the  paradise 
of  the  bootlegger,  concerning  "persistent  reports"  in 
connection  with  the  immoderate  sale  of  liquors  to  the 
American  soldiers  abroad.  He  wrote  to  Gen.  Pershing 
about  the  matter  and  this  very  interesting  and  illuminat- 
ing answer  was  made  by  the  commander  of  the  Amer- 
ican expeditionary  forces  : 

"There  never  has  been  a  similar  body  of  men  to 
lead  as  clean  lives  as  our  American  soldiers  in 
France.  Tbcy  have  entered  this  war  with  the 
highest  devotion  to  duty  and  with  no  other  idea 
than  to  perform  these  duties  in  most  efficient  man- 
ner possible.  They  fully  realize  their  obligation  to 
their  own  people,  their  friends  and  the  country. 

A  rigid  program  of  instruction  is  carried  out  daily 
with  traditional  American  enthusiasm.  Engag^ed 
in  healthy,  interesting  exercises  in  the  open  air. 
with  simple  diets,  officers  and  men  like  trained 
athletes  are  ready  for  their  task.  Forbidden  the  use 
of  strong  drink  and  protected  by  stringent  regula- 
tions against  sexual  evils,  and  supported  by  their 
own  moral  courage,  their  good  behavior  is  the  sub- 
ject of  most  favorable  comments,  especially  by  our 
allies. 

American  mothers  may  rest  assured  that  their 
sons  are  a  credit  to  them  and  to  the  nation,  and 
they  may  well  look  forward  to  the  proud  day  when 
on  the  battlefield  these  splendid  men  will  shed  a 
new  luster  on  American  manhood." 

Bad  as  Hun  Spies. 
This  is  another  vicious  attempt  of   professional   re- 
formers given  the  He.      Thus  are  the  mothers  and  fath- 
ers of  the  American  boys  who  make  up  the  great  army 
in  France  assured  that  the  published  slander  of  a  po- 

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litical  bureau  which  hides  behind  a  leading  church  is  an 
absohite  untruth.  But  the  lie  here  exposed  is  but  one 
of  many  that  have  been  permitted  to  reach  the  public 
eye.  The  work  of  those  who  originate  such  stories  is 
traitorous  and  evil.  The  time  may  come  when  the 
American  people  will  appreciate  that  the  propaganda  of 
the  professional  prohibitionist  who  ostentatiously  wears 
the  cloak  of  piety  is  even  more  dangerous  to  the  cause 
of  humanity  than  the  house  of  Hohenzollern. — Buffalo 
Enquirer. 


ALCOHOL  A  WAR  FACTOR, 

ALCOHOL  is  absolutely  indispensable  to  the  manu- 
facture of  the  only  kind  of  powder  that  can  be 
used  by  the  United  States  Army  and  Navy.  In 
case  of  war,  the  present  production  of  alcohol  would  be 
hopelessly  inadequate  for  that  purpose.  Two  years, 
and  perhaps  more,  would  be  required  to  restore  the 
alcohol  capacity  already  lost  by  the  passage  of  state 
prohibition  statutes. 

"Could  an  enemy  of  our  country,  therefore,  ac- 
complish more  for  his  cause  than  by  bringing  about 
the  enactment  of  'Dry'  laws?  Are  sinister  influ- 
ences now  at  work  in  t  hat  direction?" — Daniel 
Russell,  in  The  Modern  City,  Official  Organ  of  the 
League  of  American  Municipalities. 


TERRIBLE  STUFF. 

These  barrels  con- 
tain "deadly"  wine, 
which  has  impaired 
the  efficiency  of  the 
French  warriors  to 
such  an  extent  that 
they  are  able  to 
withstand  the  at- 
tacks of  the  greatest 
fighting  machine  the 
world  has  ever 
known. 

— French  Official  Photo,  fron 
Pictorial  Press,  N,  Y.  City. 


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TRAITOROUS  PROHIBITION. 

EVERY  falsehood  uttered  by  the  Board  of  Temper- 
ance, Prohibition  and  Morals  of  the  Methodist 
Church  to  the  effect  that  drunkenness  and  lust  are 
destroying  the  American  Army  in  France  is  denied  by 
trustworthy  witnesses,  military  and  civilian.  Truth 
may  at  length  overtake  untruth,  but  meantime  great 
harm  will  have  been  done  and  anxieties,  already  keen, 
cruelly  increased. 

The  published  slander  of  this  political  bureau  hiding 
behind  a  great  church  rests  upon  a  few  private  letters 
the  authors  of  which  refuse  the  use  of  their  names. 
With  such  a  flimsy  basis  we  are  informed  that  Gen. 
Pershing's  troops  are  whipped  at  this  moment  by  de- 
bauchery and  its  diseases  ;  that  they  are  in  hospitals  and 
guard-houses  by  thousands;  that  the  condition  of  both 
officers  and  men  is  appalling,  and  that  nothing  can  save 
them  but  American  prohibition  enforced  in  France  as 
some  credulous  people  think  it  is  enforced  here. 

In  regard  to  most  things,  prohibitionists  have  as- 
sumed and  been  accorded  the  right  to  speak  as  they 
please  of  their  opponents.  Their  hearts  are  bitter  and 
their  tongues  drip  venom.  It  is  one  thing,  however,  to 
exhaust  the  vocabulary  of  detraction  upon  a  political  or 
social  foe  at  home,  and  emphatically  another  to  apply 
libels  to  the  armies  of  the  nation  now  facing  the 
enemy  abroad. 

We  shall  hear  in  defense  of  these  falsifiers  that  their 
intentions  were  good,  but  can  the  authorities  let  it  go  at 
that?  No  matter  what  their  intentions  may  be,  their 
work  is  evil  and  traitorous.  There  is  not  an  enemy 
alien  in  custody  today  whose  hostility  to  the  American 
cause  has  been  so  harmful.  Not  one  of  the  opponents 
of  the  Draft  Law  now  in  prison  is  so  steeped  in  guilt 

Is  prohibition  propaganda  deadlier  than  any  with 
which  Ciermany  has  famibarized  u.>,  to  be  tolerated 
simply  because  it  wears  rather  more  ostentatiously  than 
the  Kaiser's  cloak  of  piety. — New  York  World. 


WARRING  NATIONS  DRINK. 

NEITHER  England,   France,  Italy  nor  the  Central 
Powers  have  found  it  necessary  or  even  desirable 
to    go    bone-dry     tor    the    period    of    hostilities. 
Germany,  indeed,  has  commandeered  the  entire  national 
stock  of  beer  and  wines   for  the  use  of  its  soldiers. — 
Carter  II.   I lurrixo)!,   for^icr  Mayor  of  Chiiiiijo. 


WINE  CROP  TO  RESTORE  FRANCE. 

ABOVE  the  roar  and  rumble  of  guns  there  comes 
from  France  the  grateful  intelligence  that  the 
champagne  crop  will  be  "fine."  A  little  less  than 
an  average  yield,  owing  to  the  shortage  of  labor,  to 
be  sure,  but  of  excellent  tone  and  quality.  Champagne 
is  one  of  the  many  boons  that  France  has  given  to 
humanity,  and  notwithstanding  its  fame,  and  its  rela- 
tively high  cost,  even  in  France,  it  is  a  grateful  solace 
to  soldiers  at  the  front  who  are  sure  of  an  allowance 
when  illness  overtakes  them,  or  when  they  are  brought 
back  to  base  hospitals  as  a  result  to  be  numbered  among 
the  wounded.  If  the  doctor  in  charge  prescribes  it  the 
cost  is  not  considered.  Less  important,  but  worthy  of 
consideration,  is  the  thought  that  with  a  "fine"  crop 
New  York  and  other  American  communities  will  get 
their  share. 

And  another  gratifying  feature  of  the  report  is 
the  assurance  that  the  great  industry  has  been  con- 
served; that  despite  a  war  which  has  taxed  her  re- 
sources to  the  uttermost,  France  has  not  lost  sight 
of  the  fact  that  when  it  ends  one  of  her  great 
sources  of  wealth,  through  which  she  may  reha- 
bilitate her  fortunes,  will  be  her  vineyards  and  vine 
dressers. — New  York  Morning  Telegraph. 


ENGLAND  IS  STILL  "WET." 

LORD  D'ABERNON,  Chairman  of  the  Central 
Control  Board  for  Liquor  Traffic,  in  explaining 
the  liquor  situation  in  England,  said  : 

"We  have  had  no  desire  to  impose  hardships  on  the 
trade  and  our  restrictions  were  decided  upon  only  after 
careful  consideration  and  consultation  with  local  au- 
thorities. 

"Our  success  is  due  to  the  fact  that  the  whole  liquor 
question  has  been  handled  as  a  separate,  distinct  prob- 
lem which  it  really  is. 

"The  Liquor  Control  Board  comes  to  an  end  a  year 
after  the  war,  but  the  w^hole  problem  of  regulation  of 
liquor  traffic  will  have  been  modified  profoundly  by  its 
action  and  experience. 

"It  has  been  shown  that  men  can  be  made  more  sober 
without  prohibition  and  without  fanatical  restrictions. 
Things  never  will  slip  back  to  the  old  evil  conditions. 
— Cincinnati  Post. 

81 


WINE— A  MILITARY  NECESSITY. 

THE  following  citation  from  The  Lancet,  one  of 
the  most  esteemed  medical  journals  of  the  world, 
is  very  instructive : 
"It  is  stated  that  the  French  government  has  re- 
quisitioned for  the  purpose  of  the  army  a  very  sub- 
stantia] proportion  of  the  vintage  production.  In 
France,  therefore,  wine  has  assumed  a  military  import- 
ance, for  no  less  than  200,0(H).000  gallons  of  wine  from 
the  country,  together  with  40,000,000  gallons  from  her 
Algerian  colony,  have  been  reserved  for  the  use  of  the 
soldiers.  Tt  would  appear  that  each  officer  and  man 
received  daily  half  a  litre  of  wine.  This  allowance 
has  been  adopted  since  the  war  began,  and  the  authori- 
ties are  convinced  that  it  has  contributed  to  the  health 
and  efficiency  of  the  troops  through  a  campaign  con- 
ducted under  very  trying  conditions.  The  reasonable 
consumption  of  the  wine  of  the  country  (vin  ordinaire) 
is  evidently  regarded  beneficial  rather  than  demoral- 
izing." 


"DRYS"  HOLD  UP  ARMY  BILL. 
"TT  had  been  assumed  that  the  great  war  on  which  the 
X  United  States  has  entered  had  wiped  out  all  party 
lines  and  factional  divisions  in  Congress  on  all  mat- 
ters pertaining  to  the  war ;  that  for  the  time  and  the 
work  falling  to  it  we  had  a  Congress  not  of  Democrats 
and  Republicans,  Progressives,  Prohibitionists,  Social- 
ists, but  of  straight  Americans. 

"But  it  was  not  to  last.  The  one  smallest  and  most 
tenacious  of  isms  was  unequal  to  the  test.  The  fanati- 
cism of  prohibition  has  proved  stronger  in  those  whom 
it  obsesses  than  all  other  considerations.  The  prohibi- 
tionist is  distinctively  a  man  of  one  all-dominating  idea. 

"Thus  they  held  up  the  Army  Bill,  which  should  have 
been  put  through  with  unhalting  expedition.  In  a  crisis 
when  it  is  essential  that  we  shall  organize  an  army  as 
expeditiously  as  possible,  the  prohibitionists  of  Con- 
gress tell  us  that  we  shall  not  have  an  army  at  all 
unless  the  sale  of  liquor  to  it  shall  be  forbidden.  It 
is  more  important,  they  say  in  effect,  that  the  sale  of 
liquor  to  army  men  shall  be  prohibited  than  that  we 
shall  have  an  army  to  defend  the  countr>-  in  the  most 
fearful  war  that  the  nation  has  ever  known." — Louis- 
ville Coiiricr-Jounnil. 

88 


LET  ARMY  AND  NAVY  ALONE. 

"'T^HEORISTS  and  sentimentalists  should  keep  their 
J^  impudent  fingers  out  of  our  army  and  navy.  It 
is  an  insult  to  American  soldiers  to  even  think 
that  they  will  not  live  up  to  the  best  of  American 
traditions.  There  is  no  danger  in  the  republic  from 
militarism,  but  it  is  not  safe  from  severe  Prussianism. 
There  are  many  men  in  this  country  who  are  preach- 
ing doctrines  that  would  sacrifice  individual  liberty  to 
a  false  efficiency." — IVashington  (Ind.)  Herald. 


AMERICAN  OFFICERS  IN  FRANCE. 


—French  Official  Photo,  from  Pictorial  Press,  N.  Y.  City. 

American    officers    being    entertained    by    French 
officers.    Wine  with  that  lunch! 


DEMOCRACY  AND   HARD   CIDER. 

To  the  Editor  of  the  New  York  World: 

WE  are  waging  war  to  make  the  world  safe  for 
democracy.  If  that  word  means  anything  it 
means  self-government — the  organization  of  so- 
ciety so  as  to  protect  and  preserve  the  rights  and  liber- 
ties of  all  the  people.  Yet,  while  we  are  pouring  out 
our  blood  and  treasure  for  this  high  aim,  the  Supreme 
Court  of  the  United  States  holds  that  the  Government 
of  a  state  has  the  right  to  arrest,  fine  and  imprison  a 
citizen  who  makes  cider  from  his  own  apples  and  allows 
it  to  become  "hard."  or  who  crushes  grapes  of  his  own 
growing  and  makes  wine. — Anti-Prohihition. 


MEN   WHO    DID   NOT   ADVOCATE 
PROHIBITION. 

JESUS  CHRIST. 

JOHN  C.  CALHOUN. 

CHRISTOPHER  COLUMBUS. 

SAINT  PAUL. 
SOCRATES. 

DANIEL  WEBSTER. 

WILLIAM  SHAKESPEARE. 

THE  POPES  OF  ROME. 
JOHN  PAUL  JONES. 

MARTIN  LUTHER. 
HENRY  CLAY. 

JOHN  CALVIN. 
MICHEL  ANGELO. 

JOHN  THE  BAPTIST. 

U.  S.  GRANT. 

ALL  THE  APOSTLES. 
GOETHE. 

BENJAMIN  FRANKLIN. 

JUi.IUS  CAESAR. 

ALFRED  TENNYSON. 

ROBERT  BURNS. 

ALFRED  THE  GREAT. 
PERICLES. 

N.  BONAPARTE. 
PLATO. 

CHARLEMAGNE. 

IMMANUEL  KANT. 

VOLTAIRE. 


DANTE. 


GEORGE  WASHINGTON. 
— From  "Life." 


WHAT  NOTED  MEN  THINK 
OF  PROHIBITION. 


REV.  LYMAN  ABBOTT. 

"TT  was  not  the  method  of  Jesus.  He  lived  in  an  age 
J[  of  total  abstinence  societies  and  did  not  join  them. 
He  emphasized  the  distinction  between  His  meth- 
ods and  those  of  John  the  Baptist;  that  John  came 
neither  eating;  nor  drinking;  the  Son  of  Man  came  eat- 
ing and  drinking.  He  condemned  drunkenness,  but 
never  in  a  single  instance  lifted  up  His  voice  in  con- 
demnation of  drinking." 


JUDGE  GAYNOR. 

'^"\"Y  TE  have  far  more  to  fear  in  this  country  from 
Y^  the  gradual  encroachment  of  arbitrary  power 
than  from  all  the  vices  of  liquor-drinking, 
gambling  and  prostitution  combined.  .  .  .  The 
exercise  of  arbitrary  power  brings  in  its  wake  sooner 
or  later  all  of  these  vices,  and  especially  the  detest- 
able vices  of  official  oppression,  extortion  and  black- 
mail."   

ARTHUR  BRISBANE. 

"'TpEMPERATE  drinking  has  been  a  part  of  the  life 
J__    of   every  great   man  and   of   every   great  nation 
without   exception.       Good    wine   and   good   beer 
are  among  Nature's  generous  gifts." 


CARDINAL  MANNING. 

"Drunkenness  is  not  the  sin  of  the  drink,  but  of 
the  drunkard."  

SAMUEL  GOMPERS. 

"TT'OU  know  my  stand  in  favor  of  personal  freedom, 
JL  and  my  objections  to  the  attempt  to  regulate 
personal  habits  by  majority  vote,  no  matter  how 
the  majority  may  be  obtained.  Besides  this,  the  fact 
is  that  prohibition,  whether  general  or  local,  simply 
means  the  creation  of  deceit,  the  breaking  of  the  law, 
the  impossibility  of  its  enforcement  and  the  substitution 
of  the  worst  form  of  poisonous  drinks  for  ordinary 
drinking." 

85 


REV.  CYRUS  TOWNSEND  BRADY. 
"T  DO  Not  believe  in  prohibition  as  a  restrictive  meas- 
Ji^  ure,    or    as    a    means    of    reform.       I    am    entirely 
committed  to  local  option  with  a  high  license  and 
careful  police  supervision." 


SIR  WILLIAM  TRELOAR. 
"  A  ND  you  call  this  a  free  country,  where  a  man 
^^^who  likes  a  drink  can't  take  one  because  someone 
else  feels  that  he  should  not.  Why,  even  when 
I  came  in  they  asked  me  whether  I  was  a  male  or  a 
female,  and  if  I  had  ever  been  in  prison." — Former 
Lord  Mayor  of  Loudon. 


JOHN  STUART  MILLS. 

PROHIBITION.— A  theory  of  'social  rights'  which 
is  nothing  short  of  this — that  it  is  the  absolute 
social,  right  of  every  individual  that  every  other 
individual  shall  act  in  every  respect  exactly  as  he  ought ; 
that  whosoever  fails  thereof  in  the  smallest  particular 
violates  my  social  rights  and  entitles  me  to  demand 
from  the  legislature  the  removal  of  the  grievance.  So 
monstrous  a  principle  is  far  more  dangerous  than  any 
single  interference  with  liberty;  there  is  no  violation  of 
liberty  which  it  would  not  justify." 


RALPH  WALDO  EMERSON. 

"'T^HE  wise  know  that    foolish  legislation  is  a   rope 
JL     of  sand  which  perishes  in  the  twisting;  that  the 
state  must  follow  and  not  lead  the  character  and 
progress    of    the    citizen.       The    law    is    only    a    mem- 
orandum."   

PROF.  JOHN  STUART  BLACKIE. 

"X  TO  man  with  sense  will  argue  that  the  spectacle  of 

^^    a  drunkard  or  a  whole  troop  of  drunkards,  in  a 

ditch,  should  be  used  as  an  argument  to  deprive 

the  whole  race  of  the  kindly  blessing  that  maketh  glad 

the  heart  of  man,  saint  and  sinner  alike." 

OSCAR  W.  UNDERWOOD. 
•"YTOU  would  not  prevent  the  drinking  of  liquor  or 
j[  the  evils  that  grow  out  of  it,  but  you  would  de- 
stroy the  supervision  of  the  liquor  traffic  by 
local  authority.  Vou  would  destroy  this  revenue,  and 
the  evils  of  intemperance  would  still  exist." — Congress- 
man fro)n  Alahcima. 

86 


JOHN  KOREN. 
"^T^HE  Anti-Saloon  League  is  thus   a  very  compact 
J[     practically    self-perpetuating,    and,    in    a    public 
sense,  irresponsible  group,  which  knows  no  po- 
litical fealty  to  other  principles  than  that  of  prohibition, 
but  seeks  to  bind  all  parties  to  its  chariot." 


REV.  GEORGE  ELIOT  CORLEY. 
"T  TAKE  issue  emphatically  and  sincerely  with  those 
J_  who  would  maintain  and  enforce  a  state  prohibitory 
law.      Without   the   people   behind   a   law,   in   each 
community  where  it  is  to  be  enforced,  that  law  is  im- 
potent."   

BISHOP  TUTTLE. 

'"TJROHIBITION,  as  I  understand  it,  deems  it  a  sin 

JL^  to  make  liquor  and   to   sell  liquor.      It  does  not 

seem  to  me  that  a  sin  lies  there,  nor  does  it  lie 

in    drinking    liquor — it    lies    in    drinking    to    excess." — 

Episcopal  Diocese  of  St.  Louis. 


BISHOP  RUSSELL. 
"T  AM  always  afraid  of  that  class  of  people  who  are 
j_  better  'than  thou.'  I  fear  the  man  who  convinces 
himself  that  his  views  are  necessarily  the  views  of 
Almighty  God.  I  fear  saints  in  politics.  I  sometimes 
feel  that  I  would  like  very  much  to  be  able  to  revise 
the  'Litany  of  Saints.'  After  'All  ye  Saints  of  Heaven, 
intercede  for  us,'  I  would  like  to  insert,  'From  the  Saints 
on  earth,  O  Lord,  deliver  us.'  " 


CONGRESSMAN   GILL. 
"   A   S   a   representative  of   labor   on  this   floor,   I   am 

J^  proud  to  stand  in  unison  with  my  old  associate 
and  co-worker,  Samuel  Gompers,  of  the  Ameri- 
can Federation  of  Labor,  and  state  with  added  em- 
phasis that  it  would  be  far  better,  far  more  wise,  more 
moral,  and  a  thousand  times  more  desirable  to  take  the 
position  of  organized  labor  on  this  question  and  insist 
on:  (a)  Increasing  wages ;  (b)  Shorter  hours  of  work; 
(c)  More  leisure,  so  as  to  afford  an  opportunity  for 
the  cultivation  of  (1)  Better  tastes;  (2)  Better  aspira- 
tions; (3)  Higher  ideals;  (4)  Better  standard  of  living; 

(5)  Freedom  from  the  burdens  of  excessive  toil;  (6) 
Better  homes  and  surroundings  for  the  poor — than  try 
to  effect  by  statutory  law  that  which  must  come  from 
the  ever-expanding  consciousness  of  a  world's  people." 
— Representative  Michael  J,  Gill,  of  Missouri. 

87 


SENATOR  JOHN  SHARP  WILLIAMS. 
"X  TO  Man  or  group  of  men  have  the  right  to  take 
\y\  from  another  a  piece  of  property'  Avithout  com- 
pensation. Whether  or  not  yon  agree  that  this 
man  shonld  have  had  property  rights  is  another.  ^  But 
these  rights  have  heen  regarded  as  property  rights. 
And  as  such  they'  should  be  compensated  for." 

JOHN  QUINCY  ADAMS. 

"T^ORGET   not,   I   pray  you,   the    right   of   personal 

JP     liberty     .     .     .     seek    not    to    enforce    unon    your 

brother  by  lecrislative  enactment   the  vfrtue  that 

he  can  possess  only  bv  the  dictates  of  his  conscience  and 

the  energy-  of  his  will." 

CLARENCE  DARROW. 
"XTOW  there  is  one  rule  of  life.  If  you  give  men 
X  1  opportunity,  give  them  food  and  clothing  and 
drink  and  sunlit,dit  and  homes,  they  can  look 
after  their  own  morals,  and  they  cannot  do  it  any 
other  way.  The  whole  theory  of  prohibition  is  wrong. 
Live  and  let  live.  Be  men  and  let  us  govern  ourselves 
if  we  die  in  the  attempt.  Tliis  is  the  only  true  theor>' 
of  living.  We  have  but  one  hope  and  one  dream — 
freedom.''  

THADDEUS  STEVENS. 
"T  WOULD  be  glad  if  legislation  could  cure  intemper- 
J_  ancc,  but  I  have  seen  it  tried  and  tried  in  vain.      1 
do  not  believe  that   sumptuary  laws  ever  had  any 
effect  to  stop  abuses  in  any  country." 


COUNT  LEO  TOLSTOY. 

WHY  should  there  be  any  prohibition  of  the  sale 
of  alcoholic  drinks?     Why  shouldn't  I  have  the 
right  to  drink  just  what  I  like  provided  I  do 
it  decentlv  and  not  to  excess?" 


CHARLES  DICKENS. 
"^TT^HE  cause  of  intemperance  is  not  promoted  by  any 
J_  intemperate  measures.  It  is  intemperate  conduct 
to  assert  that  fermented  liquor  ougbt  not  to  be 
drunk  at  all  because  when  taken  in  excess  they  do  harm. 
Wine  and  beer  and  spirits  have  their  place  in  the  world. 
The  real  temperance  cause  is  injured  by  intemperate 
advocacy  and  an  argument  which  we  cannot  honestlv 
sustain  is  injurious  to  the  cause  it  is  enlisted  to  support." 


HENRY  WATTERSON. 

»  "T  DO   not   believe   that  men   can   be   legislated   into 

JL  angels — even  red-nosed  angels.      The  bine  laws  of 

New  England — dead  letters  for  the  most  part — did 

more  harm  to  the  people  while  they  lasted  than  all  other 

agencies  united." 


THOMAS  JEFFERSON. 

"'T^ELL  any  man  he  shall  not  do  a  thing  or  have  a 
J^     thing  and   that  thing  becomes  the  very  one  he 

•wricViPC    +r»    rio    f\r   1iq-»7^p  " 


CONGRESSMAN  MOORE. 

"TTTE  cannot  decently  destroy  the  property  or  the 
Y  y  rights  of  those  whose  business  Congress  has 
sanctioned  since  the  beginning  and  from  whom 
perhaps  a  third  of  our  nation's  revenue  has  been  de- 
rived. It  would  result  in  poverty,  lawlessness,  taxation, 
and  distress.  Where  would  we  lay  this  new  taxation? 
Would  it  be  upon  the  churches  and  charitable  institu- 
tions, which  are  now  exempt,  or  would  we  lay  it  upon 
the  backs  of  the  people  whom  we  have  already  taxed 
to  the  very  limit  of  endurance?" — Representative  J. 
Hampton  Moore,  of  Pennsylvania. 


OLIVER  WENDELL  HOLMES. 

"T  BELIEVE  in  temperance,  nay,  almost  in  abstinence, 
j|_  for  healthy  people.  I  trust  that  I  practice  both. 
But  let  me  tell  you  there  are  companies  of  men  of 
genius  into  which  I  sometimes  go,  where  the  atmosphere 
of  intellect  and  sentiment  is  so  much  more  stimulating 
than  alcohol,  that  if  I  thought  fit  to  take  wine  it  would 
be  to  keep  me  sober.  Among  the  gentlemen  I  have 
known,  few,  if  any,  v/ere  ruined  by  drinking.  My  few 
drunken  acquaintances  were  generally  ruined  before 
they  became  drunkards.  The  habit  of  drinkving  is  often 
a  vice,  no  doubt — sometimes  a  misfortune — as  when  an 
almost  irresistible  hereditary  propensity  exists  to  in- 
dulge in  it — but  oftenest  of  all  a  punishment." 


PROF.  HUGO  MUNSTERBERG. 
"T^VILS    of   drink   exist    and   to    neglect    their   cure 
\2j  would  be  criminal;   but  to   rush  on  to  the  con- 
clusion that  every  vineyard  ought,  therefore,  to 
be  devastated  is  unworthy  of  the  logic  of  a  self-govern- 
ing nation." 

89 


WILLIAM  H.  TAFT. 
"T  AM  opposed  to  either  saloon-keeper  rule  or  to  the 
Jl  extreme  of  prohibition. 

"Let's  have  a  SA^stem  of  local  option  where  in 
a  community  they  will  support  the  enforcement  of  law. 
"Let  us  deal  with  the  matter  in  a  common  sense  way. 
Let  us  deal  with  human  nature  as  it  is.  Understand 
what  the  conditions  are  and  then  adopt  the  laws  to 
ameliorate  them.  Do  not  put  a  lot  of  laws  on  our 
statute  books  that  we  know  in  our  hearts  we  can't  en- 
force— ^just  an  attempt  to  fool  the  people." 


LEE  J.  VANCE. 

"TF  the  prohibition  against  taking  liberty  or  property 
J_  without  due  process  of  law  is  not  a  restraint 
against  taking  liberty  or  property  by  ballot,  then 
the  representatives  of  the  people  who  framed  and 
adopted  the  5th  and  14th  Amendments  were  sadly  de- 
ceived and  they  did  not  know  what  they  were  doing." 


JAMES   MADISON. 

IT  is  of  great  importance  to  a  republic  not  only  to 
guard  society  against  the  oppression  of  its  rulers, 
but  to  guard  one  part  of  society  against  the  oppres- 
sion of  the  other.      Justice  is  the  end  of  government; 
it  is  the  end  of  civil  society." 


REV.  GEO.  H.   HARRISON. 

"XT  TRITE  this  in  flames  across  the  heavens.  The 
Y  y  sins  of  the  world  can  never  be  reached  or 
eradicated  through  prohibition,  the  ballot  box 
or  civil  war.  Indeed  such  nullify  the  grand  plan  of 
human  redemption,  and  cannot  be  otherwise  than  an 
offensive  to  God  and  a  crime  to  humanity." 


BISHOP  DONAHOE. 

LET  us  be  Christian  men  of  moderation  in  drink  as 
in    all    other    things;    but   do   not    let    us    permit 
others    to    put    a    muzzle    on    us    as    they   do    on 
dogs." — Bishof>  of  WUccling,  IV.   Va. 


MICHAEL  MONAHAN. 

PROHIBITION  limits  the  spirit  of  American  lib- 
erty. It  holds  the  menace  of  old  slaveries,  cast- 
off  prejudices,  mental  and  physical,  that  we  in 
this  country  have  long  outgrown.  It  is  warming  back 
into  pestilent  life  and  activity  those  old  snakes — 
scotched,  not  killed ! — of  Hatred,  Proscription,  Bigotry, 
Fear  I  For  in  the  simplest  terms,  what  is  Prohibition? 
A  giving  play  to  that  ineradicable  passion  for  regulat- 
ing and  controlling  and  tyrannizing  over  the  lives  of 
others  which  so  many  men  cherish  in  the  name  of  god- 
liness. It  was  this  spirit — and  no  other! — which'  framed 
the  dungeons  and  devised  the  tortures  of  the  Inquisi- 
tion."— Michael  Monahan,  Editor  Phoenix  Magazine. 


CARDINAL  GIBBONS. 

"T  AM  opposed  to  any  state-wide  or  nation-wide  pro- 
X  hibition  measure.  • 

"A  law  of  this  kind  interferes  with  the  personal 
liberty  and  rights  of  the  people  and  creates  hypocrisy 
on  the  part  of  the  public. 

"It  is  infinitely  better  for  humanity  if  it  is  allowed  to 
exercise  its  own  will  power  rather  than  to  attempt  to 
drive  it  and  regulate  it  by  laws ;  we  develop  a  higher 
type  of  man  spiritually — a  better  citizen,  a  better  neigh- 
bor, a  better  husband,  a  better  father — by  requiring  him 
to  use  his  own  initiative  in  moral  matters  rather  than 
by  attempting  to  hold  him'  constantly  in  legislative  lead- 
ing strings. 

"The  belief  that  legislation  is  a  panacea  for  all  social 
ills  is  one  of  the  great  evils  of  the  day. 

"I  would  regard  the  passage  of  a  Federal  prohibition 
law  as  a  national  catastrophe  little  short  of  a  claim 
against  the  spiritual  and  physical  well-being  of  the 
American  people." 


RICHMOND   PEARSON   HOBSON. 

"T  DEMAND   whiskey   for  my  men  who  have  long 
X  been  exposed  in  the  water." 

Such  is  the  statement  credited  to  Richmond  P. 
Hobson  by  one  of  the  famous  crew  of  seven  that  sank 
the  Merrimac  in  the  Spanish-American  war,  immedi- 
ately after  that  great  exploit. 

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"DOLLAR  BILL"  SUNDAY. 

"T  REGRET  that  I  have  to  shove  the  collection  pans 
j^  under  your  noses  before  I  preach.  Hereafter  when 
a  town  or  city  calls  me,  the  churches  must  guar- 
antee that  they  will  pay  the  entire  bill — all  the  expenses, 
every  cent — on  the  first  day.  They  must  get  all  the 
money  in  the  first  day's  collection.  They  will  have  to 
pay  the  first  day  or  I  won't  go  to  that  town," — Billy 
Sunday,  in  the  New  York  Morning  Telegraph. 


CONGRESSMAN  JACOB  E.  MEEKER. 

HORSE  sense  ought  to  convince  any  man  that  as 
long  as  it  is  intended  to  permit  him  to  purchase, 
use  or  keep  liquor,  it  is  better  to  keep  control  of 
its  distribution.  If  we  keep  on  with  this  kind  of  snob- 
bish legislative  program  of  Pharisceism  in  politics,  one 
of  these  days  we  will  see  an  anti-church  mo\  emcnt  that 
will  make  the  Anti-Saloon  Lcagiie  look  like  a  piker. 
When  the  church  tries  to  run  the  state,  look  out." 


THEY  CAN'T  BEAT  THIS  ONE. 

THERE  are  only  two  remedies  for  intemper- 
ance. The  first  is  total  abstinence  and  that 
is  no  quack  nostrum.  The  second  is  moder- 
ation and  that  is  no  quack  nostrum.  These  two 
remedies  will  cure  every  case  of  intemperance  in 
the  world.  Prohibition  can  never  be  a  remedy. 
There  are  two  men  in  the  liquor  business.  The 
man  behind  the  bar  and  the  other  in  front  of  the 
bar.  The  man  behind  the  bar  is  the  effect,  the 
man  in  front  is  the  cause,  and  the  whole  dry 
movement  is  aimed  at  the  effect,  not  the  cause. 

Now,  if  you  vote  the  man  behind  the  bar  out 
of  business  you  simply  change  the  channel 
through  which  the  man  in  front  of  the  bar  will 
get  his  wet  goods  in  the  future.  Yon  cannot  save 
him  by  a  prohibition  enactment.  That  is  impos- 
sible. You  will  never  be  able  to  save  a  drunkard 
who  has  the  price  and  appetite  until  you  repeal 
the  law  of  fermentation.  So  long  as  it  exists 
man  will  be  able  to  make  intoxicants  from  apples, 
or  from  peaches,  or  from  grapes  or  from  some- 
tliing;  he  will  get  it  from  the  silo  if  he  has  no 
other  way.— r.  A.  W'indlc 


WOULD  "DRYS"  PAY  FOR  PROHIBITION? 

THE  populous  Eastern  States  already  pay  a  great 
proportion  of  Government  revenues  in  corpora- 
tion and  income  taxes  and  super-taxes.  It  hardly 
seems  fair  that  they  should  have  these  already  high 
taxes  boosted  again  merely  to  please  the  high  moral 
ideas  of  the  solons  of  the  West  and  South.  It  seems 
hardly  humane  to  pile  more  taxes  upon  these  poor  "wet" 
sections,  already  being  dragged  to  wreck,  ruin  and  de- 
generacy by  the  Rum  Demon.  It  does  seem  that  those 
blessed  sections  of  the  land  which  have  been  emanci- 
pated from  the  curse,  and  where  crime  and  poverty 
have  been  abolished  by  prohibition,  ought  to  be  rich 
enough  and  willing  enough  to  pay  the  expense  of  regen- 
erating the  "wet"  territory,  since  they  are  so  bent  on 
saving  us  all. — Baltimore  Sun. 


PROHIBITION  IN  MAINE. 

IN  the  New  York  Evening  Post,  W.  E.  Bickford,  of 
South  Parsonfield,  Maine,  describes  conditions  in 
Maine. 

"There  are  over  300  illicit  stills  in  our  county.  No 
one  here  goes  to  church.  When  I  attended  a  church 
here  many  years  ago,  300  persons  was  the  usual  con- 
gregation. Last  Sabbath  the  number  was  32,  the  largest 
congregation  in  three  years.  They  stay  at  home  to 
make  this  poison  and  sell  it.  Population  has  decreased 
in  every  county  nearby.  This  town  in  1865  had  a 
population  of  3,400 ;  today  it  has  1,920.  I  was  employed 
as  Superintendent  of  Construction  by  the  United  States 
Steel  Company,  at  Tiffin,  Ohio,  and  moved  back  to 
Maine,  as  we  supposed  it  was  a  second  heaven.  When 
we  arrived  in  Portland,  we  saw  more  drunks  than  we 
ever  saw  in  Ohio  in  the  twenty-six  years  that  we 
lived  there." 


"DRY"  LAW  COSTLY. 

IN  looking  for  an  argument  against  prohibition,  one 
has  only  to  cite  the  case  of  Maine.  Maine  was  the 
first  state  to  go  "dry"  ;  that  happened  way  back  in 
1851,  but  is  Maine  really  "dry"?  According  to  the 
Bangor  (Me.)  Commercial,  in  one  county  alone  it  costs 
$300  a  week  to  enforce  the  dry  law.  Fifteen  deputy 
liquor  inspectors  are  paid  $300  a  week  and  expenses. 
There  is  a  great  demand  throughout  the  state  for  en- 
larged farms  and  homes  for  inebriates. 

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UNCLE  SAM  SHOULD  PAY  DISTILLERS  FOR 
THEIR  PLANTS. 

Bache  Review,  Wall  Street  Paper,  Points  Out  Why 

It  Would  Be  Only  Fair  to  Reimburse  Liquor 

Men  for  Losses  Sustained  Through 

National  Prohibition. 

THE  question  of  compensation  for  distillers  is  in- 
telligentlv  discussed  by  The  Bache  Reviezv"  pub- 
lished by  J.  S.  Bache  &  Co.,  of  New  York  City, 
members  of  the  New  York  Stock  Exchange,  which 
says  in  part : 

"We  said  recently  in  the  Reviezv,  that  if  stopping  ab- 
solutely the  manufacture  of  distilled  spirits  was  neces- 
sary in  order  to  conserve  the  grain  supply,  then  the 
interests  which  have  put  vast  sums  of  money  in  this 
business  should  be  compensated  by  the  Gcnernment  if 
the  business  is  destroyed.  No  just  discussion  of  the 
subject  can  gainsay  the  fairness  of  compensating  any 
industry  where  vast  amounts  have  been  expended, 
strictly  under  the  law,  and  where  a  change  in  the  law 
puts  an  end  to  the  service  of  its  plants  and  destroys  the 
value  of  the  millions  of  capital  invested. 

On  this  subject  the  proprietor  of  one  of  the  large 
distilling  companies,  referring  to  the  article  in  the  Re- 
viezi',  writes  : 

"As  a  distiller  I  must  bow  obediently  to  the  dictates 
of  patriotism  and  governmental  edict,  but  if  the  con- 
fiscation of  my  plant  (and  its  prohibition  of  use  is  con- 
fiscatory) is  necessary  to  help  win  the  war  for  the 
benefit  of  all  the  people,  then  why  should  not  all  the 
people  who  are  to  be  beneficiaries  share  in  the  loss? 

"\ry  own  distillery  paid  the  Government  over  one 
million  dollars  in  taxes  during  the  past  twelve  months. 

"What  crime  have  I  committed — what  laws  have  I 
broken  that  my  property  should  be  confiscated  without 
compensation? 

"If  the  Government  is  about  to  create  a  monopoly  in 
alcoholic  beverages  for  brewers  and  wine  makers,  why 
should  not  the  tax  on  beer  and  wine  be  still  further 
increased  and  such  increase  set  aside  to  create  a  sinking 
fund  for  the  further  compensation  of  the  distillers 
whose  property  is  destroyed  ? 

"The  Government  could  commandeer  those  distilleries 
not  equipped  for  or  engaged  in  the  production  of  in- 
dustrial alcohol  and  pay  for  them  in  thirty-year  V/2  per 
cent  bonds,  and  these  bonds  could  easily  be  taken  care 
of  by  a  sinking  fund  as  above  suggested." 

But  the  distillers  now  dispute  and  bring  figures  to 
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prove  their  contention  that  the  grain  supply  is  only 
fractionally  called  upon  for  use  in  their  business.  The 
facts  adduced  are  claimed  to  be  from  Government 
statistics,  and  the  statement  is  as  follows : 

"The  facts  are  that  there  is  consumed  less  than  Yi  of 
1  per  cent  of  the  total  crops  of  the  country  in  the  pro- 
duction of  spirit  alcoholic  beverages.  During  the  fiscal 
year  just  closed  the  total  amount  consumed  was  not  as 
large  as  that,  but  during  the  fiscal  year  ending  June  30, 
1916,  the  following  quantities  of  grain  were  consumed 
in  the  manufacture  of  distilled  spirits,  which  includes 
alcohol  and  whiskey: 

Bushels 

Corn  32,069,542 

Rve   • 3,116,612 

Barley  Malt 4,480,588 

Wheat  3,373 

Barley 148 

Oats  9,807 

Total 39,680,070 

During  that  same  year  there  were  grown  in  the 
United  States: 

Bushels 

Corn   2,717,932,000 

Rye   41,884,^000 

Wheat  : 607,557,000 

Barley  183,536,000 

Oats 1,229,182,000 

Total 4,780,091,000 

•*As  above  pointed  out,  the  total  amount  of  grain  con- 
sumed for  the  production  of  distilled  spirits  was 
89,680,070  bushels,  or  about  8/10  of  1  per  cent. 

"It  must  be  remxcmbered  that  after  the  manufacture 
of  grain  into  spirits,  there  results  a  product  known  as 
'distillers'  grain'  which  has  a  very  high  animal  feeding 
value,  and  that  these  distillers'  grains  thus  conserved 
amount  to  40  per  cent  of  the  total  original  quantity  of 
grain  employed ;  therefore,  as  a  matter  of  fact  nearly 
16,000,000  bushels  are  recovered  and  used  for  feeding 
purposes,  leaving  the  net  consumption  of  grain  for  the 
distillation  of  beverage  alcohol  approximately  Yi  of  1 
per  cent  of  the  total  production  of  the  country. 

"Furthermore,  of  this  total  quantity  not  less  than 
20,000,000  gallons  of  distilled  spirits  were  used  in  the 
fiscal  year  ending  June  30,  1916,  in  the  production  of 
drugs  and  perfumeries." 

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COMPENSATION. 

D  CLARENCE  GIBBONY,  President  of  the  Law 
^  and  Order  Society  of  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  says : 
"Aloral  problems  demand  righteous  settement, 
and  we  cannot  pretent  that  the  saloon  question  is  one  of 
our  fault.  I  contend  that  it  is  all  our  fault.  This  being 
so,  we  shall  obtain  freedom  from  the  business  only 
by  methods  straightforward  and  clean.  Objection  to 
this  plan  will  be  made  because  of  the  large  amount 
of  money  necessary  for  such  a  big  undertaking.  If 
we  have  shared  in  the  profits  as  taxpayers  and  citizens, 
it  is  plain  we  should  be  willing  to  stand  some  loss  in 
closing  out  the  traffic. 

"I  cannot  understand  how  any  good  citizen,  if  he 
comprehends  the  facts,  can  approve  a  partnership 
which  gives  both  partners  part  of  the  profits,  but 
charges  one  of  the  partners  with  all  the  losses  at 
the  time  of  dissolution.  This  is  neither  just  nor 
equitable.  So,  therefore,  it  cannot  be  the  right  way 
out. 

"The  only  course  left  for  us  is  to  support  a  square 
deal  abolition  of  the  liquor  traffic." 

When  the  Swiss  General  Assembly  passed  a  Federal 
law,  June  4,  1910,  providing  for  the  prohibition  of 
absinthe,  a  Federal  decree  was  also  passed  providing 
for  the  payment  of  indemnities  to  compensate  those 
who  had  invested  their  wealth  in  the  business. 

In  February,  1915,  a  measure  was  passed  by  the 
French  Chamber  of  Deputies  which  allowed  the  sum 
of  14.800,000  francs  (approximately  $2,9Go,(M)0)  as  com- 
pensation to  manufacturers  and  dealers  in  absinthe  for 
the  extinction  of  their  business. 

In  England  the  licenses  are  distributed  among  the 
saloons  at  regular  intervals,  known  as  Brewster  Ses- 
sions. The  authorities  reserve  the  right  to  grant  or 
refuse  as  many  licenses  as  they  think  best. 

However,  those  saloon-keepers  who  are  refused  a 
renewal  of  their  license  are  given  compensation  for 
their  loss.  In  the  year  1909,  625.001  pounds  (approxi- 
mately $3,125,000)  was  the  amount  paid  as  compensa- 
tion money  by  the  authorities  in  England. 

When  the  ban  was  placed  on  the  sale  of  vodka  in 
Russia  compensation  was  not  necessar>\  for  the  vodka 
business  was  owned  by  the  Russian  Government  and 
the  abolition  of  the  business  worked  no  injury  to  any 
private  citizen. 


The  citizens  of  the  United  States  should  ever  keep 
in  mind,  when  discussing  Prohibition,  the  fact  that 
it  would  not  be  fair  nor  just  nor  American  to  destroy 
a  man's  investment,  his  business,  his  good  will,  and 
to  rob  many  homes  of  their  incomes,  without  provid- 
ing proper  compensation  for  all  this  loss. 


BACKED  BY  UNCLE  SAM. 

THE  United  States  has  said :  "Provided  you  comply 
with  our  regulations  and  pay  the  heavy  taxes  on 
3'our  product  required  by  law,  you  may  invest 
hundreds  and  millions  of  dollars  in  distilleries."  The 
Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States  has  held,  in  an 
opinion  written  by  Mr.  Justice  Hughes,  that  the  manu- 
facture and  sale  of  liquor  is  "a  lawful  business." 

Yet  this  lawful  business,  built  up  under  the  protection 
and  encouragement  of  the  government,  is  now  threat- 
ened with  complete  destruction,  and  the  advocates  of 
this  property-confiscating  legislation  declare  that  they 
will  oppose  any  attempt  to  compensate  the  owners  of 
these  great  properties  for  the  loss  that  will  be  inflicted 
upon  them. — Robert  BlackAvood  in  The  Modern  City. 


JUSTICE  DEMANDS  PAYMENT. 

BUT  what  of  the  men  who  have  enormous  sums  in- 
vested in  the  business  of  distilling?    And  what  of 
the  banks  that  have  advanced  money  on  whiskej' 
stock  and  the  wholesale  dealers  whose  warehouses  are 
filled  with  barrels  of  whiskey? 

"Justice  demands  that  these  men  who  are  engaged 
in  a  legitimate  business  and  pay  large  revenues  into 
the  cash  box  of  the  country  should  receive  from  this 
Government  the  value  of  their  property  and  their  goods. 
A  great  industry  will  be  wiped  out,  and  it  is  fair  to 
pay  the  price." — New  York  Morning  Telegraph. 


THE  PENNY  GRABBERS. 

THE  men  who  collect  the  funds  for  the  Anti-Saloon 
League  take  50  per  cent  themselves  and  send  2^ 
per  cent  to  Rev.  Purley  Baker,  the  National 
Superintendent  of  the  League.  The  legislative  investi- 
gation of  the  state  of  Texas  revealed  this  fact  and 
Representative  Jeff  McLemore  read  it  into  the  Con- 
gressional Record. — Ohio  Valley  Times. 

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COMPENSATION    IN   ENGLAND. 

IN  considering  by  what  means  the  liquor  trade  may  be 
best    regulated    in    the    interest    of    the    nation,    the 

British  Government  turns  instinctively  to  the  pre- 
liminary method  of  purchase  by  the  state.  Primarily 
it  is  a  question  of  how  the  transfer  shall  he  financed, 
and  what  measure  of  compensation  the  public  houses 
and  their  backers  shall  receive  in  return  for  their  con- 
sent. Anything  like  a  summary  suppression  or  seizure 
of  the  liquor  trade  as  a  development  of  its  war  policy 
is  wholly  foreign  to  its  general  policy.  It  assumes 
that  it  is  dealing  with  vested  interests,  whose  rights 
in  a  sense  are  superior  to  the  Government's  even  in 
war-time  and  which  are  entitled  to  exact  full  indem- 
nity if  forced  to  quit  business. 

Nothing  could  be  further  from  the  practice  of  this 
country  in  handling  the  liquor-traffic  problem.  If  the 
people  of  a  state  at  any  time  see  fit  to  adopt  prohibi- 
tion by  amending  the  constitution,  that  ends  the  matter. 
If  they  suddenly  close  all  saloons  within  a  limited 
area  under  the  local  option  system,  that  is  a  change 
they  make  at  will  where  state  laws  permit,  and  the 
dealer  and  his  landlord  have  no  redress.  The  brewers, 
the  distillers  and  the  liquor  sellers  can  obtain  no  dam- 
ages because  they  have  sufTered  losses  or  their  places 
of  business  have  been  closed.  They  have  no  choice 
but  to  submit  to  the  enforcement  of  the  law.  with  no 
consolntion  of  payment  for  the  property  they  have 
been  compelled   to  forfeit. 

It  is  this  radical  difference  between  American  and 
Briti'ih  theories  as  to  the  excise  system  that  makes  it 
difficult  for  people  in  this  country  to  understand  the 
reluctance  with  which  the  British  Government  ap- 
proaches any  plan  for  the  regulation  of  the  liquor 
trade.— A^rTC   York   World. 


"IGNORANT  OR  DISHONEST." 

THE  Government  for  a  great  many  years  has  been 
largely  supported  by  the  taxes  paid  by  the  men 
who  own  distilleries,  breweries  and  vineyards. 
Their  business  has  been  recognized  by  the  Government 
at  least  to  this  extent.  Now  that  the  same  Govern- 
ment is  about  to  wipe  out  this  business,  it  is  entirely 
right  and  proper  that  the  owners  should  be  paid  for 
their  losses — nothing  more. 

One  of   the   big  points   we  are  making  against   Ger- 
many is  that  she  must  compensate  Belgium  because  of 
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her  confiscation  of  that  country  and  its  property,  and 
we  are  fighting  a  great  war  to  enforce  that  principle. 

Yet,  the  amendment  providing  that  the  owners  of  the 
destroyed  property  should  be  paid  was  defeated  in  the 
Senate  by  a  vote  of  50  to  31. 

With  all  respect  to  the  "greatest  deliberative  body 
in  the  world"  as  a  body,  we  have  only  to  say  that  the 
50  men  who  voted  against  the  Stone  arnendment  are 
either  ignorant  or  dishonest. — St.  Louis  Times. 


CONFISCATION  UN-AMERICAN. 

ASIDE  from  the  loss  of  property,  the  loss  of  em- 
ployment, the  demoralization  of  real  estate  values 
and  the  spreading  of  evil  influences  which  will 
result  from  such  a  measure,  there  also  remains  the  fact 
that  the  United  States  Government  collects  approxi- 
mately $400,000,000  each  year  from  the  liquor  interests. 
How  is  this  sum  to  be  made  up?  Are  the  people  to  be 
burdened  with  additional  taxation? 

"If  prohibition  is  the  only  salvation  for  our  country 
we  must  have  it.  Let  the  prohibition  amendment  pro- 
vide for  just  compensation  to  those  who  would  be  in- 
jured by  such  legislation.  Confiscation  without  com- 
pensation does  not  meet  with  popular  approval.  It  is 
un-American. 


LIQUOR  USE   ON  INCREASE. 

ALL  previous  American  records  for  the  consump- 
tion of  whiskey,  cigars,  cigarettes  and  tobacco 
apparently  went  by  the  board  during  the  past 
fiscal  3'ear.  The  report  of  the  Commissioner  of  In- 
ternal Revenue,  covering  the  twelve  months  ending 
June  30,  1917,  shows  record  tax  collections  on  these  and 
other  articles.  Here  are  the  grand  total  productions 
upon  which  taxes  were  paid : 

Distilled  spirits  from  every  source — rye,  corn,  wheat, 
apples,  peaches,  figs,  pineapples,  oranges,  berries,  prunes, 
figs  and  cherries — 164,665,246  gallons,  an  increase  of 
26,000,000  gallons  over  the  p^-evious  year,  yielding  a  tax 
return  of  $186,563,055. 

The  production  of  beer,  while  exceeding  that  of  the 
previous  year  was  below  the  high  record  of  66,000,0<>0 
barrels  in  1914.  Taxes  were  paid  last  year  on  60,700,549 
barrels  at  $1.50  per  barrel,  and  other  taxes  on  brewers 
and  retailers  brought  the  total  up  to  $91,897,193  as 
against  $88,771,104. 

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MAY  PROHIBIT  TOBACCO  NEXT. 


HERE  is  what  is  worrying  everyone  who  has  any 
interest  in  tobacco  :  Should  the  Anti-Saloon  League 
be  successful,  the  Federal  Government  will  lose 
$300,000,000  each  year  which  is  now  received  from 
liquor  taxes.  This  deficit  must  be  made  up  some  way 
and  the  tobacco  people  have  a  strong  suspicion  that 
they  are  to  be  made  the  "goat." 

One  tobacco  man  declared  that  nation-wide  prohibi- 
tion would  mean  that  cigars  and  cigarettes  that  now 
sell  for  five  cents  would  cost  at  least  twenty-five  cents 
under  the  additional  tax  burden  which  they  bebeve  is 
sure  to  be  imposed  upon  them.  They  are  wondering, 
therefore,  if  the  prohibitionists  had  not  better  let  well 
enough  alone  and  be  satisfied  with  state-wide  instead 
of  nation-wide  prohibition. — Greensboro  (N.  C.)  Daily 
Mews.  

URGES   BAN  ON  TOBACCO. 

LET  those  who  pooh-pooh  the  assertion  that  the 
same  people  who  have  prohibited  liquor  in  Vir- 
ginia, Tennessee  and  other  states,  are  now  attempt- 
ing to  prohibit  tobacco,  read  the  letter  of  Chas.  Hagan 
to  President  Wilson,  suggesting  that  the  planting  of 
tobacco  be  stopped  and  the  fields  utilized  for  the  raising 
of  food  products.  He  also  urged  the  President  to  ask 
Congress  to  prohibit  the  maiuifacture,  sale  and  im- 
portation of  tobacco. 


PROHIBITION  IN  GEORGIA. 

MR.  R.  T.  ASKEW,  a  resident  of  Atlanta,  Ga.,  in 
a  letter  to  the  editor  of  the  Atlanta  Constitution, 
declares  he  has  voted  the  prohibition  ticket  for 
many  years  and  has  raised  four  boys  who  have  followed 
the  same  idea.  He  protests,  however,  against  the  pass- 
age of  "bone-dry"  legislation,  stating  that  the  law  will 
never  be  upheld  by  public  sentiment.  He  predicts  that 
at  least  7.')  per  cent  of  the  people  are  disgusted  with 
"bone-dry." 

He  called  upon  every  voter  to  join  in  an  effort  to 
abolish  wildcat  legislation  and  bring  the  state  in  good 
repute  with  the  outside  world  as  well  as  within  its 
borders. 

Georgia  at  present,  he  declared,  is  the  laughing-stock 
of  the  nation. 

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TOBACCO  IS  IN  DANGER. 

TOBACCO  growers  and  manufacturers  are  worried 
over  the  methods  resorted  to  by  the  "drys,"  realiz- 
ing that  the  same  agitators  who  are  fighting  Hquor 
are  equally  determined  to  have  their  turn  at  tobacco. 

An  investigation  recently  conducted  by  the  Tobacco 
Leaf,  a  trade  paper,  showed  the  progress  of  anti- 
tobacco  legislation. 

Here  are  some  of  the  most  striking  features: 

"There  are  thirty  states  in  which  legislation  restrict- 
ing in  greater  or  less  extent  the  use  or  sale  of  tobacco 
is  either  active  or  pending. 

"In  eight  states  there  are  laws  prohibiting  the  sale 
of  cigarettes   to  persons   under  eighteen   years   of  age, 

"In  eight  other  states  there  are  laws  prohibiting  the 
sale  of  cigarettes  to  persons  under  twenty-one  years 
of  age. 

"In  five  states  there  are  laws  prohibiting  the  manu- 
factitre  and  the  sale  of  cigarettes  to  any  one. 

"In  eight  states  there  are  bills  pending  in  the  legis- 
latures prohibiting  either  the  sale  or  the  smoking  of 
cigarettes,  or  both, 

"Altogether  there  are  thirty-nine  separate  and  dis- 
tinct restrictive  tobacco  measures  pending  in  state 
legislative  bodies  throughout  the  country  which  have 
not  been  killed  in  committee  or  reported  adversely, 
and  which  may  be  regarded  as  having  a  fair  chance 
of  being  enacted  into  laws," 


AFTER  LIQUOR  COMES  TOBACCO. 

JUST  as  sure  as  the  world  revolves  an  attempt  will 
be  made  to  prohibit  the  use  of  tobacco,  when  the 
prohibition  of  liquor  is  accomplished  and  the 
tobacco  industry  might  just  as  well  get  ready  to  face 
that  condition,  declared  Carroll  S.  Bartram^,  Editor  of 
the  Cigar  and  Tobacco  Journal,  Minneapolis. — Dtilnth 
{Minn.)   Tribune.        

BAR  CIGARETTES   IN   KANSAS. 

TOPEKA,  KAN.— The  New  Kansas  cigarette  law 
forbids  the  sale  at  news  stands  or  on  trains  of 
newspapers  or  magazines  carrying  cigarette  ad- 
vertisements, according  to  an  opinion  handed  down  by 
Attorney  General  Brewster.  Outside  newspapers  going 
direct  by  mail  to  subscribers  are  not  affected  by  the 
law. — St.  Louis  Post  Dispatch. 

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WHY   CATHOLIC  CHURCH   IS  AN 
ENEMY  TO  PROHIBITION. 

"'T^HE  Catholic  Church  has  not  allied  itself  with  the 
J_  prohibition  movement,  as  we  know  it  in  this 
country,  because  she  sees  so  much  in  it  that  is 
not  Catholic,  because  of  her  experience  with  human 
nature  for  the  last  nineteen  hundred  years,  and  because 
of  her  recognition  of  the  rights  and  liberties  of  human 
nature.  •■  She  believes  in  prohibition — for  the  man  who 
does  not  know  how  to  use  alcoholic  drinks  in  modera- 
tion, for  the  man  who  cannot  afford  to  indulge  in  them. 
and  for  the  man  who  is  freely  willing  to  sacrifice  such 
pleasure. 

"She  has  always  counseled  and  advised  her  children 
to  practice  total  abstinence;  she  has  always  thundered 
against  the  abuses  of  liquor.  She  has  always  recog- 
nized that  many  men  can  use  moderately,  and  without 
injury-  to  themselves,  their  families,  their  religion  or 
the  state,  alcoholic  liquors. 

She   Bows  to   Reason. 

"She  has  always  recognized  that  many  men  can  prac- 
tice ordniary  virtue  without  resorting  to  heroic  meas- 
ures. And  in  consideration  of  these  men  she  has 
never  attempted  to  force  prohibition  upon  her  children. 

"The  Church  has  lived  to  see  hundreds  of  reform 
measures  come  and  go.  Many  of  them  were  good. 
But  there  was  nothing  good  in  them  that  had  not  been 
provided  for  in  the  catalogue  of  the  Church's  virtues. 
And  rest  assured  that  when  the  present  prohibition 
wave  has  subsided  and  the  whole  program  of  public 
action  has  swung  to  another  'cure  for  all,'  the  Church, 
plodding  along  in  her  unostentatious  and  calm  way. 
will  still  be  preaching  temperance  for  all,  and  total 
abstinence  for  those  that  need  it  or  want  it." — Rez- 
Igmitius  Smith,  O.  P.,  in  "Truth." 


TENNESSEE   AND    PROHIBITION. 

THAT   prohibition    strikes    into   the   purses   of   tax- 
payers is  shown  in  the  case  of  Tennessee,  which, 
according  to  the  Chattanooga  Times,  faced  a  float- 
ing indebtedness  of  more  than  a  million  dollars  result- 
ing from  the  loss  of  liquor  revenue. 

The  state  was  deprived  of  financial  resources  by  the 
enactment  of  prohibition  laws  and  an  official  estimate 
showed  that,  the  1917  deficiency  would  run  toward  the 
half  million  mark  uijless  the  tax  rate  was  increased. 

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ALCOHOL   IS   INDISPENSABLE. 


Some  Ways  In  Which  It  Will  Always  Be  Used. 

ALCOHOL  is  one  of  the  most  important  materials 
used  in  the  arts  and  sciences.  In  many  hnes  of 
manufactures  it  is  absohitely  indispensable.  Doctors 
disagree  violently  about  its  value  as  a  medicine,  or  as 
a  stimulant  in  the  practice  of  medicine.  But  it  is 
indispensable  in  the  drug  trade,  because  it  is  the  only 
solvent  that  will  preserve  many  indispensable  drugs 
without  changing  their  chemical  properties  and  their 
value  as  medicine.  Chloroform,  ether  and  other  drugs 
of  great  value  are  made  of  alcohol. 

Without  alcohol  felt  and  silk  hats  could  not  be  made, 
and  the  list  of  dyes,  drugs,  chemicals,  varnishes,  photo- 
graphic materials  and  other  products  in  common  use 
is  a  large  one.  Modern  civilization  depends  upon  alco- 
hol for  their  production  in  some  way  or  other. 

If  gasoline  becomes  too  scarce  and  high  in  price 
users  of  automobiles  and  motor  trucks  may  have  to 
fall  back  on  alcohol,  which  is  an  efficient,  but  at  pres- 
ent, a  too  costly  substitute.  In  France,  at  this  time, 
large  quantities  of  alcohol  are  used  in  ordinary  illumi- 
nating lamps  fitted  with  incandescent  mantles,  because 
the  price  of  coal  and  petroleum  products  is  so  high 
that  the  government  is  limiting  the  manufacture  and 
use  of  gas  in  Paris  and  other  large  cities. 

Don't  Destroy  Distilleries. 

Instead  of  talking  about  destroying  distilleries,  we 
should  be  considering  plans  for  making  them  more 
valuable  and  more  useful  to  mankind.  The  day  may 
come  when  the  petroleum  wells  of  the  world  will  be 
exhausted,  as  the  best  of  them  already  have  been 
pumped  out  in  some  parts  of  Pennsylvania.  Even  the 
reserves  of  coal  which  nature  has  stored  up  for  us 
will  not  last  forever,  but  as  long  as  the  sun  shines 
and  the  rain  falls  the  means  of  producing  large  quan- 
tities of  alcohol  will  not  diminish.  In  some  parts  of 
the  tropics,  where  vegetation  is  very  luxuriant,  vege- 
table matter  that  can  be  converted  readily  into  alcohol 
can  be  obtained  in  enormous  quantities. 

The  world  may  yet  arrive  at  an  age  of  alcohol  when 
its   inhabitants   hav6   learned  how  to  produce  and   use 
it  without  abusing  it. — New  York  Commercial. 
103 


THE   HISTORY  OF  ALCOHOL: 

Nations  Drank  It  and  Became  Great — Still 

Hold  Their  Supremacy. 


1.  In  the  northern  hemisphere  alcohol  was  discov- 
ered and  used  as  a  beverage  for  acres,  while  its  use 
was  wholly  unknown^  in  the  southern  hemisphere. 
Civilization  rose  only  in  the  northern  hemisphere  and 
not  in  the  southern. 

2.  Those  parts  of  the  northern  hemisphere  first  at- 
tained civilizntion  where  alcohol  was  first  used.  In 
those  parts  of  the  northern  hemisphere  where  alcohol 
was  for  ages  unknown,  civilization  was  likewise  un- 
known. 

3.  In  the  Book  of  Genesis  mankind  is  described  as 
engulfed  in  wickedness  before  the  discovery  of  alcohol. 
It  improves  after  Noah  "began  to  be  an  husbandman 
and  planted  a  vineyard." 

4.  The  intellectual  superiority  of  the  wine  drinking 
Greeks.  The  rise  of  the  Greek  intellect  from  Homer 
to  Aristotle  was  continuously  accompanied  by  alcoholic 
temptation. 

6.  The  rise  of  Rome  is  a  striking  example  of  the 
continuous  improvement  of  posterity  under  alcoholic 
temptation.      The  Romans  loved  and  drank  wine. 

"Dry"  But  Uncivilized. 

6.  From  the  earliest  times  to  the  Roman  conquest 
northern  Gaul  and  the  valley  of  the  Rhine  was  "dry" 
and  un«M\ilized.  From  the  Roman  conquest  to  the 
fifth  century  .\.  D.  it  had  alcoholic  temptation  and  civil- 
ization. \Vith  the  fall  of  tlie  Roman  Empire,  (iaul 
was  reforested  ;  civilization,  commerce  and  alcohol  died 
together,  and  for  five  centuries  northern  France  and 
the  Rhine  were  again  "bone-dry"  and  uncivilized.  In 
the  teiUh  century  the  cultivation  of  tli<*  vine  on  the 
banks  of  the  Rhine  began  anew,  and  as  alcoholic  temp- 
tation gradually  spread,  civilization  gradually  rose.  A 
considcratit^n  of  the  liistory  of  the  Rhine  is  most 
illuminating,  because  during  these  periods  it  was  con- 
tinuously inlialiited  by  white  Europeans.  For  twenty- 
five  centuries  ci\  ili^ation  and  alcohol,  savagery  and  pro- 
hibition were  found  together. 

7.  In  modern  Europe  the  use  of  distilled  spirits  as  a 
beverage  has  invariably  preceded  a  brilliant  improve- 
ment of  posterity  and  a  consequent  high  civilization. 
Distilled  spirits  first  came  into  common  use  in  Holland; 
and   to   this  day  the   name   "holland"   is  often  used  to 

104 


mean  gin.  It  was  in  gin  drinking  HoHand  that  re- 
ligious and  political  freedom,  industrial  activity,  arts 
and  enterprise  ^rst  rose  to  the  height  that  marks  modern 
civilization.  The  "rise  of  the  Dutch  Republic"  was  the 
rise  of  a  people  tempted  by  the  stronger  forms  of  dis- 
tilled alcohol. 

8.  In  England  the  common  drink  to  the  end  of  the 
seventeenth  century  was  ale.  In  1690  distilling  was 
thrown  open  to  any  one  on  pa3mient  of  trifling  duties, 
spirits  became  extremely  cheap  and  their  consumption 
increased  with  great  rapidity.  The  vast  achievements 
of  science,  art  and  invention  of  the  English  speaking 
people  followed  the  introduction  of  distilled  spirits. 

9.  A  generation  before  the  birth  of  Robert  Burns, 
the  common  drink  of  the  Scotch  was  ale  for  the 
peasants;  claret  for  the  rich.  In  the  latter  half  of  the 
eighteenth  century,  whiskey  had  become  plentiful  and 
cheap  in  Scotland  and  superseded  ale  as  the  peasants' 
drink.  Burns,  himself,  became  an  exciseman.  Alco- 
holic temptation  in  the  stronger  form  of  whiske}^  was 
followed  by  a  rapid  improvement  in  the  Scotch  peas- 
antry, the  rise  of  Scotch  industry,',  arts  and  enterprise, 
and  the  progress  of  Scotch  settlements  throughout  the 
globe. 

America's  Wonderful  Century. 

10.  America's  "wonderful  centur}^"  which  began 
with  the  establishment  of  self-governing  independence 
and  ended  with  the  extinction  of  African  slavery,  fol- 
lowed the  temptation  of  alcohol  in  its  stronger  forms. 
V\^hiskey  was  common,  lightly  taxed,  plentiful  and 
cheap.  It  was  with  universal  alcoholic  temptation  per- 
vading all  classes  from  the  highest  to  the  lowest,  rich 
and  poor,  that  this  country  achieved  its  greatness. 

The  evidence  is,  therefore,  that  without  alcoholic 
temptation  posterity  has  not  improved  and  civilization 
has  not  risen.  On  the  strongest  forms  of  alcoholic 
temptation  civilization  has  attained  its  greatest  heights. 
On  those  areas  of  the  globe  where  alcohol  has  been  un- 
known civilization  v.^as  absent ;  where  alcohol  has  been 
used  for  thousands  of  years  (as  in  the  Mediterranean 
basin)  civilization  has  persisted;  while  in  those  regions 
which  have  had  alcohol  at  one  time  and  not  at  another 
civilization  has  been  contemporaneous  with  alcoholic 
temptation,  savagery  with  prohibition. 

The  history  of  five  thousand  years  docs  not  tell  of 
peoples  laid  low  by  alcoholic  temptation  and  exalted 
by  abstinence.  Rather  it  records  the  unvarying  triumphs 
of  the  tempted  races.  So  that  alcoholic  temptation,  first 
known  to  a  tiny  area  of  the  world,  has  now   spread 

105 


throughout  the  globe.  If  it  were  destructive  of  a  race 
this  could  not  have  taken  place.  There  is  more  to  this 
world  than  we  see  around  us.  We  are  the  posterity  of 
long  tempted  ancestors,  and  we  have  enjoyed  the  bene- 
fits of  a  continuous  selection  of  those  who  could  best 
resist  temptation.  This  selection  has  created  the  "mod- 
erate drinker."  It  has  created  self-restraint  and  self- 
respect.  It  has  made  temperance  as  general  among  us 
as  it  is  among  Jews.  If  we  now  abolish  drink  and 
abandon  selection,  the  character  of  posterity  in  a  few 
generations  will  entirely  change.  Temperance  will  be 
unknown  The  moderate  drinker  will  disappear.  In 
his  place  there  will  be  a  society  of  savages,  sober  when 
they  cannot  get  alcohol,  drunken  when  they  can.  Yet 
Christian  men  and  women  whose  own  present  virtues 
are  the  heritage  of  long  generations  of  tempted  an- 
cestors and  favorable  selection  are  actually  demanding 
such  a  change  and  are  prepared  to  hail  its  coming  with 
jov. — Written  by  "Time,"  for  the  AVzf  York  Sun. 
January  14,  1018. 

EPISCOPAL  CLERGY  NOT  "DRY." 

AT  the  last  diocesan  convention  of  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church,  held  in  New  York  City,  Dr. 
Leighton  Parks,  of  St.  Bartholomew's  Church, 
vigorously  opposed  prohibition.  Declaring  that  he  was 
an  advocate  of  temperance,  but  opposed  to  prohibition 
on  the  ground  that  it  could  never  be  enforced,  Dr 
Parks  said  : 

"We  must  not  put  a  law  on  our  books  which  will 
deny  stimulant  to  our  hoys  when  they  need  it;  we 
must  not  deny  that  stimulant  to  those  boys  who  lie 
wounded,  parched  in  the  blistering  sun  or  wet  and  cold 
in  the  drenching  rain;  we  must  conserve  those  boys 
and  not  deny  them  that  which  nature  needs  and  their 
physicians  advise." 

it  was  Dr.  Parks'  belief  that  the  Russian  upheaval 
was  largely  due  to  the  enactment  of  an  unenforceable 
prohibition  law. 

PROHIBITION  AND  CRIME. 

VIRGINIA  has  been  dr>'  for  nearly  twelve  months, 
but  there  have  been  several  brutal  murders  and 
assaults  in  that  time,  and  the  first  lynching  in 
many  years.  We  observe  also  that  in  the  county  of 
Pittsylvania  there  are  44  divorce  cases  on  the  docket,  27 
having  been  added  since  the  last  term  of  the  court 
Prohibition  docs  not  make  human  nature  intrinsically 
better, — Herald,  Nev.'t'ort  Xezcs,  I'a. 

106 


3,500  ILLICIT  STILLS  IN  "DRY"  NORTH 
CAROLINA. 

OUR  state  is  disgraced  by  having  over  3,500 
blockade  distilleries— an  average  of  35  to  the 
county,  according  to  U.  S.  Revenue  Collector 
J.  W.  Bailey. 

This  is  a  tremendous  increase,  and  indicates  far 
more  distilleries  of  all  kinds  than  were_  operated 
in  the  halcyon  days  of  license. — The  Highlander, 
Shelby,  N.  C,  January  19,  1918. 


TEN  QUESTIONS  FOR  PROHIBITIONISTS. 

W HIDDEN  GRAHAM,  writing  in  the  Louisville 
Courier- Journal,  asks  Rev.  Dr.  Powell  the  fol- 
lowing questions : 

First — Do  you  believe  that  a  majority  of  vegetarians 
have  a  moral  right  to  enact  laws  prohibiting  the  pro- 
duction, sale  or  use  of  meat? 

Second — Do  you  believe  that  a  majority  of  Hebrews 
have  a  right  to  prohibit  the  sale  or  use  of  ham  and 
bacon? 

Third — Do  you  believe  that  a  majority  of  rationalists 
have  a  right  to  prohibit  the  exercise  of  their  religious 
functions  by  Christians? 

Fourth — Do  you  believe  that  the  majority  rule  of  the 
Mohammedans  in  Turkey  justifies  the  suppression  of 
Christianity  among  the  Armenians? 

Fifth — Do  you  believe  that  a  majority  of  non-smokers 
have  a  right  to  deprive  the  minority  of  the  pleasure  they 
derive  from  smoking? 

Sixth — Do  you  believe  that  a  majority  of  infidels  have 
a  right  to  abolish  Sunday-schools? 

Seventh — Is  there  a  chapter,  verse  or  line  in  the  Bible 
that  justifies  the  resort  to  law,  the  policeman's  club  and 
the  jail  as  a  means  for  making  men  temperate  or  moral? 

Eighth — Did  Jesus  Christ  say :  "This  is  the  truth : 
You  must  believe  it  or  we  will  fine,  imprison  you,  and 
if  you  resist,  kill  you?" 

Ninth — Has  the  individual  no  rights  that  the  majority 
must  respect? 

Tenth — Is  the  fundamental  principle  of  Christianity 
the  law  of  love,  of  sympathy,  of  toleration,  of  kindness, 
of  the  regeneration  of  mankind  through  the  salvation 
of  the  individual,  or  is  it  a  gospel  of  hate  for  those 
whose  habits  are  different  from  those  calling  themselves 
Christians,  but  whose  ideas  of  government  are  wholly 
those  given  to  the  world  by  Mohammed? 

107 


PROHIBITION   LOGIC. 

To  the  Editor  N.  Y.  World: 

YOUR  correspondent  who  signs  himself  "An  Anti- 
Saloonist"  offers  a  specimen  of  prohibition  logic 
that  is  a  perfect  gem.    According  to  him: 

(a)  The  Germans  are  great  drinkers. 

(b)  The  ricrmans  have  committed  atrocities. 

(c)  Therefore  the  atrocities  are  due  to  the  drinking 

But  "An  Anti-Saloonist"  seems  to  forget  that: 

(a)  The   English  and   French  are  great  drinkers. 

(b)  The   English   and    French    have   not   committed 
atrocities. 

(c)  Therefore  drinking  prevents  the  commission   of 
atrocities. 

Also  that: 

(a)  The   Turks,   noble   allies   of   the   Germans,   have 
lived   undtT  prohibition  for  l,2<^0  years. 

(b)  Tlie  Turk*:  have  ravaged   Armenia,  perpetrating 
the  most    frightful  atrocities  on  the  inhabitants. 

(c)  The  ravaging  of  Armenia  is  chargeable  to  pro- 
hibition. 

Is  this  kind  of  logic  a  product  of  the  "efficiency"  that 
prohibition  is  said  to  promote?  A.vti-Twaddle. 


^'TIQUOR  never  makes  any  man  drunk — the 

J J  man     makes     himself     drunk."  —  Joseph 

Debar,  President,  National    Association 
of  Distillers  and  Wholesale  Dealers. 


IOWA  "WET"  ON  POPULAR  VOTE. 

THE  most  remarkable  state-wide  election  of  11>17 
was  the  victory  ^^f  the  people  of  Iowa  over  the 
Anti- Saloon  League.  Iowa  was  voted  "dr\'"  by 
the  legislature  in  Februar>',  191n.  without  giving  the 
voters  a  chance  to  reconsider  their  opinion,  a  proposi- 
tion identical  to  that  contained  in  the  plan  of  Congress 
to  pass  the  national  proiiibition  amendment  over  to  the 
state  legislatures  for  ratification  without  consulting 
their  constituents.  Although  the  Anti-Saloon  League 
spent  a  vast  amount  of  money,  Iowa  voted  against  tb 
constitutional  dry  amendment  by  9:32. 
Ids 


WHY  SUPERIOR  VOTED  "WET." 

ONE  year  "dry,"  and   Superior,  Wisconsin,  was  re- 
pentant.     After  blindly  following  the  Pied  Piper 
of  Prohibition,  anticipating  a  business  and  moral 
millennium  that  was  never  realized,  the  city  returned 
to  the  sane  course  of  license,   regulation  and  control. 

The  following  excerpts  from  the  Leader-Clarion 
illustrate  clearly  why  Superior  returned  to  license: 

"We  were  told  by  the  'dry'  speakers  last  spring  that 
a  'dry'  city  would  help  business;  that  a  factory  always 
springs  up  when  a  brewery  closes;  that  other  business 
would  immediately  take  the  place  of  the  saloons,  and 
that  business  would  hum  as  it  never  hummed  before. 

"How  about  the  other  business  that  was  to  fill  up 
the  vacant  saloons?  There  are  exactly  107  vacant  store 
buildings  in  the  west  end  alone. 

"We  have  no  record  of  the  number  of  vacant  resi- 
dences and  flats  in  the  city,  but  we  think  it  is  safe  to 
say  that  there  are  around  500.  Possibly  this  is  a 
good  thing  for  the  city,  but  we  confess  that  we  fail 
to  see  it.  We  fail  to  see  the  good  effect  of  'For  Rent' 
signs  in  advertising  the  advantages  of  the  city. 

"Some  of  our  clothing  merchants  told  us  practically 
the  same  thing.  One  of  them  had  this  to  say:  'This 
thing  is  driving  me  crazy.  Our  taxes  are  a  whole  lot 
higher  than  they  were,  and  our  other  expenses  have 
not  decreased.  Take  the  one  item  of  our  Saturday 
night  business.  We  used  to  be  rushed  until  late  clos- 
ing time.  Now  all  we  have  to  do  on  Saturday  night 
is  to  wash  up  our  show  cases.' 

"A  merchant  tailor  had  the  following  to  .ofiFer : 
'There  hadn't  been  a  year  for  a  long  time  that  I  didn't 
make  from  twenty  to  twenty- five  suits  of  clothes  for 
boat  men.  I  haven't  made  a  single  suit  since  the  town 
went  dry.' 

"This  is  the  offering  of  a  jewelry  man:  'Our  busi- 
ness has  been  vitally  affected.  We  always  looked  for- 
ward to  the  opening  of  navigation,  knowing  that  we 
would  do  a  good  business  with  boat  men.  We  have 
had  absolutely  none  of  that  business  the  past  year. 
Things  didn't  turn  out  the  way  we  were  told  they 
would  turn  out.  The  boom  didn't  strike  us  head-on. 
The  only  business  that  attempted  to  occupy  the  saloon 
locations  was  blind-pigs,  and  the  city  commission  put 
the  kibosh  on  them.  Instead  of  saving  their  money 
to  buy  shoes  our  people  went  right  on  buying  liquor — 
only  they  bought  it  in  Dulidth  instead  of  Superior.' " 

109 


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Another  War  For 
Democracy. 


WHEREAS,  The  fight  against  prohibition  is 
not    a   mere    trade    protest    against    inter- 
ference  with   a   lawful   and   a   recognized 
industry,  but  is  a  protest  against  the  curtailment 
of  the  natural  rights  of  American  citizenship; 

And  as  the  distilling  interests  of  this  countr>' 
have  paid  into  the  Federal  treasury  since  the  es- 
tablishment of  the  Internal  Revenue  Department 
over  six  billion  dollars  in  taxes ; 

And  if  this  industry  is  destroyed  these  taxes 
must  be  added  to  the  income  tax  or  other  taxes 
paid  by  our  citizens  ; 

And  in  view  of  the  fact  that  the  consumption 
of  spirits  has  constantly  increased  and  intemper- 
ance uniformly  decreased  there  exists  no  necessity 
for  the  present  prohibition  agitation  except  in 
the  desire  of  paid  agitators  for  financial  profit 
from  their  efforts ; 

Resolved,  That  we  will  continue  the  contest 
against  state  and  nation-wide  prohibition  as  being 
un-American  and  a  menace  to  personal  rights. 
We  appeal  to  the  Federal  Congress  for  increased 
appropriation  to  the  Internal  Revenue  Department 
for  the  purpose  of  dealing  with  the  results  of  pro- 
hibition now  manifesting  themselves  in  an  en- 
ormously increased  illicit  distillation  both  in  the 
northern  and  southern  dry  states. — Resolutions 
adopted  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Ohio  Wine 
and  Spirit  Association,  Feb.  lo,  1918. 


110 


s 


WHEN  RUSSIA  WENT  BONE-DRY. 

OON  after  the  war  evolved  and  while  Russia  was 
yet  under  autocratic  government,  by  decree  of  the 
Czar,  all  the  distilleries  were  stopned,  all  the 
saloons  were  closed — Russia,  with  its  170,(>00.000  of 
population,  mostly  vodka  drinkers,  went  bone-dry  with 
a  bang.  As  to  what  happened  after,  the  accounts  in 
the  main  particulars  have  agreed.  The  different  kinds 
of  stuff  that  the  tribes  of  Ivan  put  inside  themselves  as 
substitutes  for  vodka  is  amazing  as  to  variety.  Chem- 
icals ten  times  as  bad  as  vodka  were  resorted  to  in  an 
effort  to  obtain  toxicant  or  mind-deadening  results. 
There  may  have  been  only  a  percentage  that  took  to 
powerful  drugs  and  narcotics  when  deprived  of  the 
customary  alcoholic  beverage,  but,  as  indicated  in  the 
reports,  it  was  a  very  large  percentage.  The  Czar's 
prohibitory  decree  produced  a  large  amount  of  con- 
tusion, but  it  seems  never  to  have  accomplished  what 
it  was  aimed  to  accomplish.  The  usual  thing  hap- 
pened— blind  tigers  and  moonshine  distilleries.  Moon- 
shining  in  almost  any  part  of  Russia  is  just  as  easy  as 
in  North  Carolina  or  VVest  Virginia. — Baltimore  Star. 


COLORADO  AND  PROHIBITION. 

COLORADO  went  "dry"  January  1,  1916.      Official 
figures  published  in  the  Denver  Rocky  Mountain 
Ne-djs    show    that    drunkenness    greatly    increased 
under   prohibition   and   that   one-fourth   of   the    arrests 
were  for  intoxication. 

During  the  entire  eighteen  months  beginning  January 
1,  1916,  a  total  of  15,927  persons  were  arrested  by  the 
police  department  charged  with  various  crimes.  Of 
this  number  10,045  were  arrested  in  the  first  six  months, 
4,110  the  second  six  months  and  5,882  the  first  half 
of  1917. 

Record  for  Eighteen  Months. 

The  following  table  shows  the  number  of  arrests  for 
drunkenness,  violations,  and  the  total  number  of  ar- 
rests for  the  eighteen  months  : 

Total      Drunkenness  Violations 
1916,  first  six  months..  4,129  530  204 

1916,  second  six  months  5,916  1,075  362 

1917,  first  six  months..  5,882  1,164  290 

111 


WHY  LEVER  FOOD  BILL  WAS  HELD  UP. 


HOW  food  plotters  and  hoarders  allied  themselves 
with  the  Anti-Saloon  League  in  precipitating  the 
debate  in  Congress  in  the  summer  of  1917,  over  a 
liquor  prohibition  amendment  to  the  Lever  Food  Bill, 
was  exposed  by  H.  N.  Rickey,  in  an  editorial  written 
for  the  Scripps-McRae  League,  composed  of  many  of 
America's  leading  newspapers.    Rickey  said  in  part : 

For  many  weeks  now — tb  be  exact,  since  May  22 — 
the  Congress  of  the  United  States,  both  the  Senate 
and  the  House,  has  been  presenting  to  the  people  of 
this  country  and  the  world  a  spectacle  which  if  it  were 
not  so  tragic  might  be  described  as  the  most  utterly 
ridiculous  in  the  history  of  national  and  legislative 
bodies. 

On  the  date  named,  the  Lever  Bill,  popularly  known 
as  the  food  bill,  was  introduced  in  the  House. 

The  purpose  of  this  bill  was  to  relieve  the  110,000,00(> 
people  of  the  United  States  from  the  all  but  unbearable 
burden  of  the  high  cost  of  living. 

It  provided  for  giving  the  President  authority  to 
name  a  food  administrator  charged  with  the  vitally 
important  task  of  stimulating  the  production,  regulating 
the  distribution  of  and  stopping  the  speculation  in  food. 

There  was  absolutely  no  good  reason  why  the  food 
bill  should  not  have  been  passed  by  Congress  and  be- 
come a  law  by  the  President's  signature  within  a  week 
from  the  day  it  was  introduced. 

Why  It  Was  Not  Passed. 

There  is  not  the  shadow  of  a  doubt  that  if  this  had 
been  done,  every  family  in  the  United  States  would 
have  felt  the  effects  almost  immediately,  in  the  reduced 
cost  of  food  necessities. 

That  is  precisely  why  the  food  bill  was  not  passed 
within  a  week;  why  it  has  been  amended  to  the  point 
where  it  is  scarcely  recognizable;  why  it  still  is  being 
buffeted  about  in  Congress;  why,  for  the  past  month, 
the  debate  has  degenerated  into  a  cat  and  dog  fight  on 
the  liquor  question. 

At  the  time  the  liquor  issue  was  interjected  into  the 
discussion  it  seemed  as  if  the  food  bill  was  about  to 
be  passed. 

That  was  why  the  liquor  fight  started.  The  food 
specukitors  and  hoarders,  knowing  that  the  moment  the 
bill  was  passed  they  would  be   forced  to  stop  picking 

\  112 


the  pockets  of  the  American  people,  saved  themselves 
by  subtly  starting  the  fight  over  whiskey  and  beer. 

Every  one  who  has  sat  in  the  gallery  of  either  the 
Senate  or  the  House  and  listened  to  the  drool  about 
whiskey  and  beer,  which  is  miscalled  debate,  cannot  but 
have  been  impressed  by  the  utter  lack  of  sincerity  of 
90  per  cent  of  it. 

I  am  willing  to  admit  that  there  may  be  a  few  sen- 
ators and  representatives  who  have  shouted  and  waved 
their  arms  about  the  Demon  Rum  who  are  so  unintel- 
ligent that  they  can't  appreciate  what  monkeys  the  food 
sharks  are  making  of  them. 

But  the  great  majority  of  those  in  both  houses  who 
have  delayed  and  are  delaying  the  passage  of  the  food 
bill  by  prolonging  the  debate  about  liquor  are  deliber- 
ately and  wilfully  betraying  the  people  of  the  United 
States  in  the  interest  of  the  rapacious  food  speculators 
and  hoarders! 

Hoover's  Appesd  in  Vain. 

Every  day's  delay  has  added  millions  to  the  profits 
of  the  great  concerns  which  handle  the  food  from  the 
time  it  leaves  the  producer  until  it  reaches  the  retailer 
and  the  consumer. 

And,  what  is  more,  every  day's  delay  has  fastened 
the  grip  of  these  great  concerns  on  the  nation's  food 
reserves  and  made  it  increasingly  difficult,  if  not  im- 
possible, to  release  it  without  resorting  to  the  most 
desperate  measures. 

Isn't  it  perfectly  clear  that  while  your  Congress  has 
been  holding  up  the  food  bill  with  a  fake  debate  about 
whiskey  and  beer,  the  food  speculators  and  hoarders 
have  been  grabbing  all  the  food  they  can  get  hold  of^ 
and  making  you  pay  outrageous  prices? 


KRESGE  AND  PROHIBITION. 

SEBASTIAN  KRESGE,  five  and  ten-cent  merchant, 
comes  in  for  the  following  criticism  from  "The 
Day  Book,"  published  in  Chicago : 
"Mr.  Kresge  is  notorious  as  one  of  the  employers 
who  pays  the  rottenest  wages  to  his  employes.  He  has 
been  a  sturdy  fighter  on  the  side  of  the  manufacturers' 
association  throughout  the  country  to  kill  legislation 
aimed  to  benefit  workers.  But  he  gave  $100,000  last 
year  to  the  Anti-Saloon  League,  and  he  is  rated  a  first- 
class  citizen  by  the  church  folks  and  prohibitionists." 

113 


THE  LIMIT  IN  GALL! 

FOR  brazen  effrontery,  unmitigated  gall,  super- 
lative egotism,  transcendant  audacity,  supreme 
impudence,  commend  us  to  the  Legislative 
Committee  of  the  Prohibition  lobby  that  has  throt- 
tled war  legislation  and  has  delayed  the  nation's 
preparation  for  the  great  conflict  in  which  it  is  en- 
gaged. The  story  is  told  with  such  charming  sang 
froid  by  the  official  organ  of  the  anti-liquor  lobby 
that  we  leave  it  to  that  publication  to  relate: 

"On  last  Thursday,  June  28,  the  Legislative  Com- 
mittee of  the  Anti-Saloon  League  of  America,  which 
was  in  session  with  the  National  Executive  Com- 
mittee of  the  League  in  Washington,  was  summoned 
to  the  office  of  United  States  Senator  Martin,  of 
Virginia,  the  Democratic  floor  leader  of  the  Senate. 
On  arrival  at  his  office  we  were  informed  that  the 
President  had  just  sent  a  messenger  to  him  to  ascer- 
tain, in  view  of  the  prolonged  threatened  filibuster 
by  the  representatives  of  the  liquor  interests  in  the 
Senate,  if  we  would  not  consent  to  strike  from  the 
food  administration  legislation,  now  pending  in  the 
Senate,  beer  and  wine,  as  he  was  very  anxious  that 
this  legislation  should  speedily  be  enacted.  The 
apoeal  was  made  in  the  name  of  patriotism. 

"We  asked  if  the  appeal  had  been  made  to  the 
other  side,  and  were  informed  that  it  was  no  use,  as 
Senators  like  Penrose,  of  Pennsylvania,  and  his  type 
declared  they  would  filibuster  all  summer  before  it 
should  pass  unless  beer  and  wine  were  exempt. 
Knowing  as  v/e  did  that  the  traffic  always  puts  per- 
sonal gain  over  patriotism,  we  informed  the  Senator 
that  if  the  President  would  put  his  request  in  writ- 
ing, thus  assuming  the  responsibility,  we  would  give 
the  matter  careful  consideration." 

There  you  have  it,  and  that's  all  there  is  to  it. 
The  President  of  the  United  States  is  under  orders 
from  this  ofticious  and  offensive  lobby.  Mr.  Wilson 
must  give  written  bond  for  his  own  conduct  and  for 
that  of  the  ir.ciustry  ti.e  lobby  is  seeking  to  destroy. 
This,  perhaps,  is  the  first  instance  in  the  history  of 
the  republic  wherein  the  simple  word  of  tnc  Chief 
Executive  was  not  of  sufficient  force  and  character 
to  stand  by  itself.  For  unadulterated  effrontery, 
even  mendacity,  this  lobby's  act  deserves  a  niche  in 
history. — From   Cincinnati   Enquirer. 


"DRY"  LAW  INCREASES  DRUG  USE. 

'TT^IIIS  is  a  case,"  said  Magistrate  Simms,  in  the 
J[  Yorkville  court,  after  sentencing  an  actor  to  the 
workhouse  to  l)e  treated  for  the  heroin  hahit. 
•'which  evidences  the  alarming  and  continued  spread  of 
drug  hahits  in  the  so-called  'dry'  territory.  When  the 
man  who  drinks  heavily  cannot  get  the  alcoholics  that 
have  hecome  necessary  to  him  he  finds  a  substitute 
which  he  can  easily  carry  around  with  him.  He  tells 
others  about  it  and  boasts  of  the  merits  of  the  sub- 
stitute. Persons  who  are  easily  influenced — even  mod- 
erate drinkers — make  the  experiment  which  often  ends 
in  the  creation  of  another  drug  addict.  Drunkards  are 
bad  but  drug  addicts  are  infinitely  worse.  The  spread 
of  the  use  of  drugs  is  shown  in  the  reports  of  crimes. 
More  crimes  are  traceable  now  to  drugs  than  to  drink." 
— James  M.  Allison,  New  York  correspondent,  Cincin- 
nati Times- Star. 


PROHIBITION  IN  SOUTH  DAKOTA. 

IN  South  Dakota,  legally  dry,  druggists  are  allowed  to 
sell    alcohol    "for    veterinary    use"    without    a    pre- 
scription. 
According  to  the  Sioux  Falls  Press,  "any  owner  of  an 
animal   may  buy  alcohol   in   as  large  quantities   as  the 
druggist  will  sell  for  'scientific  purposes'  by  giving  the 
druggist  tlie  inference  that  it  is  for  a  sick  animal." 

Wherefore,  "sick  horse"  and  "sick  cow"  are  ternis 
that  pass  current  in  South  Dakota,  along  with  a  familiar 
eye-wink,  to  the  grief  of  the  prohibitionist  and  the 
scandal  of  all  righteous  citizens. — Lynn  (Mass.)  Tcle- 
(.jram. 


TRUE    MEANING    OF    TEMPERANCE. 


"TEMPERANCE  — The  state  or  quality  of 
being  temperate;  the  spirit  and  practice  of  Ra- 
tional Self-control;  Habitual  Moderation.  Self- 
restraint  ir.  the  cond'ict  of  one's  life  or  busi- 
ness; suppresi,:on  of  any  tendency  to  passionate 
action;  calmness;  patience;  as,  the  course  of 
Washington  showed  wisdom  and  temperance." 
— Definition  of  the  word  "Temperance"  in  Funk 
and  Wagnall's  New  Standard  Dictionary  of  the 
English  Language. 

115 


LUCKY  GERMAN  PRISONERS. 


— French  Official  Photo,  from  Pictorial  Press. 

These  Hun  captives,  in  a  way,  are  better  off  than 
Kansas  citizens,  for  they  have  the  opportunity  of 
drinking  French  wine. 


COFFEE  POT  STILLS. 

OLD    whiskey    stills    which    have    been    buried    or 
otherwise  hidden  away  inoperative  for  a  number 
of  years  are  being  resurrected  and  put  into  serv- 
ice  for  the  manufacture   of   old-time   'corn-liquor.' 

"Since  the  latest  amendment  to  the  prohibition  act 
became  effective,  by  which  not  more  than  one  quart 
of  intoxicants  may  lawfully  be  brought  into  the  state 
each  month  by  an  individual,  the  prosecutions  of  the 
state  department  of  prohibition  have  become  so  fre- 
quent and  vigorous  that  bootlegging  is  being  abandoned 
in  many  instances  for  the  risks  of  old-time  distilling." — 
Huntington  {W.  Va.)  Herald-Dispatch. 

The  Richmond  (Va.)  Times-Dispatch  relates  the 
following  occurrence  at  Danville : 

"Revenue  Agent  S.  R.  Brame,  with  two  deputies,  this 
afternoon  raided  the  hardware  store  of  Hodnett,  Adkins 
&  Mobley,  on  Main  street,  and  found  in  process  of 
construction  on  the  third  floor  a  still.  Having  no  li- 
cense as  still  makers,  the  members  of  the  firm,  W.  P. 
Hodnett,  S.  L.  Hodnett,  R.  R.  Mobley,  and  a  tinner, 
W.  E.  Talbot,  were  summoned  to  court  on  a  warrant, 
and  after  evidence  had  been  heard  were  sent  on  to  the 
grand  jury.  Talbot  admitted  making  this  still  and 
others  previously." 

116 


WINE   FOR   SACRAMENT   UNLAWFUL. 

OKLAHOMA  CITY. — An  opinion  given  by  Attorney 
General  S.  P.  Freling  to  the  Benedictine  Fathers 
of  Sacred  fleart  Abbey,  Sacred  Heart,  Okla.,  as- 
serts that  both  the  constitutional  prohibition  provision 
and  the  "bone-dry"  law  passed  by  the  Sixth  Legislature 
made  the  use  of  wine  even  for  sacramental  purposes 
unlawful. — Arkansas  Gazette. 


GALLIVAN    SAID    SOMETHING. 

IMBEDDED  in  that  mighty  mountain  of  words,  the 
Congressional  Record,  is  a  true  epigram.  It  is  found 
on  page  510:]  and  is  accredited  to  Mr.  Gallivan,  of 
Boston,  who  said  :  "]\Ir.  Speaker,  nim  has  more  enemies 
in  public  and  more  friends  in  private  than  any  other 
substance  the  world  has  ever  known." — Cincinnati  En- 
quirer.   

BENJAMIN  S.  WASHER. 

SHOW  me  a  state  where  the  liquor  question  is  ever 
dominant  that  is  not  merely  marldng  time  com- 
mercially, and  I  will  concede  I  am  in  error.  What 
of  forward-looking  legislation  have  Georgia,  Tennessee, 
Mississippi,  Oklahoma,  North  Carolina,  West  Virginia, 
Maine,  or  North  Dakota  put  on  the  statute  books  in  the 
past  ten  years?" 

"TO  HIS  MAJESTY,  GOD  BLESS  HIMl" 


Photo  from  Feature  Photo  Service. 

"Tommies"drinking  the  King  of  England's  health 
back  in  their  billets. 

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U.  S.  CONTROL  FOR  SEATTLE. 


DRY  for  nearly  two  years,  Seattle  seems  to  have 
gone  to  the  bad  just  at  the  time  that  it  should  be 
at  its  very  best. 

A  prominent  seaport  town  with  every  advantage  of 
the  North,  a  prosperous  North,  Seattle,  under  prohibi- 
tion, has  gone  to  the  bad  so  much  that  it  has  become 
necessary  for  "a  United  States  naval  officer,  backed  by 
all  the  military  forces  of  the  Federal  Government,  to  be 
chief  of  police  of  Seattle  and  to  assume  absolute  con- 
trol of  the  police  department  in  the  campaign  that  will 
be  launched  not  only  against  vice,  but  against  pro-Ger- 
manism as  well.  ^loreover,  he  will  wear  the  uniform 
of  the  rank  and  his  word  will  be  the  word  of  the  Fed- 
eral Government." 

Captain  R.  L.  Coontz,  commandant  of  the  Puget  Sound 
Navy  Yard,  has  sanctioned  this  proposal  and  Major 
General  H.  A.  Green,  commandant  at  Camp  Lewis,  has 
declared  himself  agreeable  to  these  operations  as  a  pre- 
ventive for  vice,  which  has  made  Seattle  an  unsafe 
place  for  soldiers. 

Why  Seattle  Is  Bad. 

It  is  not  the  soldiers,  nor  is  it  the  youth  of  the  land 
assembled  at  Camp  Lewis,  that  have  made  Seattle  so 
bad. 

No ;  it  is  rebellion  against  regulation  and  prohibition 
that  arc  not  wanted  by  the  people. 

Making  laws  for  observance  and  running  counter  to 
general  opinion  at  the  same  time  has  been  proven  to 
be  an  absolute  failure. 

There  is  no  use  in  tr>ing  to  subvert  Nature  to  the 
ideals  of  fools  or  played-out  and  worn-out  old  roues. 

Prohibition  has  damaged  Seattle  irreparably,  and  it 
will  continue  to  damage  any  town  where  it  is  in  vogue. 
—  Yolo  Itidct'cndcnt,  Brodcrick,  Cai. 


DR.  WASSON  ON  PROHIBITION. 

"^T^HE  prohibition  problem  is  a  question  for  every 
JL  man  to  decide  for  himself.  It  is  not  a  question 
to  be  passed  on  by  legislation.  Intemperance  is 
as  old  as  civilization,  and  the  individual  who  expects  to 
wipe  it  out  by  the  mere  writing  of  a  law,  is  deluded," 
savs  Dr.  \V.  R.  Wasson.  of  New  York,  in  the  Omahn 
(Nch.)  Bee. 

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FOUR    "DRY"    MASSACHUSETTS    CITIES 
VOTE  "WET"  AGAIN. 

THE  Boston  Herald  and  Journal  says : 
"The  most  remarkable  and  surprising  feature  of 
the  municipal  elections  which  were  held  in  18  cities 
of  this  commonwealth  yesterday  was  the  big  increase 
throughout  the  state  for  licenses.  Four  of  the  cities — 
Fall  River,  Fitchburg,  Haverhill  and  Taunton — flopped 
over  from  the  norlicense  to  the  'wet'  column. 

"Opponents  of  prohibition  last  night  were  pointing 
to  the  gain  in  this  year's  'yes'  vote  over  last  year  as 
indicative  of  the  opposition  of  voters  in  general  to  na- 
tional prohibition. 

"Fall  River,  which  went  dry  last  year  as  a  result,  it  is 
said,  of  the  active  participation  of  Billy  Sunday,  the 
evangelist,  in  the  license  campaign  there,  swung  to  wet 
yesterday  bv  a  vote  of  7,050  to  5,671.  Last  year  the 
vote  was :  Yes,  6.850 ;  No,  8,360. 

"Fitchburg,  which  went  for  license  by  370,  the  largest 
majority  ever  given  on  a  license  vote  in  that  city,  is 
less  than  a  dozen  miles  from  the  Ayer  encampment  of 
the  national  army,  where  27,000  soldiers  are  in  train- 
ing, and  now  supplants  Lowell  as  being  the  nearest 
place  where  liquor  is  legally  sold. 

"The  vote  in  Fitchburg  was :  Yes,  2,951 ;  No,  2,581. 
as  compared  with  the  vote  of  last  year,  when  the  cit}' 
went  'drv'  after  nine  years  of  license,  of  Yes,  2,981 ; 
No.  3,055. 

No-License  Fight  Is  Vain. 

"The  victory  of  the  license  forces  in  Fitchburg  was 
made  in  spite  of  the  assistance  given  the  'No'  forces  by 
Major  General  Hodges,  commander  of  Camp  Devens. 
who  declared  his  opposition  to  license  in  a  letter  which 
was  utilized  by  the  prohibitionists  in  the  fight.  No- 
license  was  also  urged  from  the  pulpit  of  every  church 
in  that  city. 

"In  Haverhill  the  license  campaigning  was  heated. 
Although  it  normally  votes  for  license,  last  year  _  it 
swung  back  into  the  no-license  column  by  a  majority 
of  96.  Yesterday  the  license  forces  triumphed  by  a  vote 
of  3,765  to  3,428,  a  majority  of  337. 

"Taunton,  which  last  year  gave  a  majority  of  176 
votes  for  no-license,  passed  over  to  the  'wet'  side  by 
the  margin  of  1,419  votes." 

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"WE    SEE  TO  YOU." 

FEW  impulses  equal  our  passion  for  regulation. 
Our  national  business  is  attending  to  other  peo- 
ple's business.  If  we  do  not  want  to  smoke,  or  to 
drink,  or  to  play  baseball  on  Sunda}',  we  cannot  be  satis- 
fied merely  by  refraining  from  these  things  ourselves  ;  we 
must  make  certain  that  nobody  within  a  thousand 
miles  of  us  is  permitted  to  smoke  or  to  drink,  or  to 
play  baseball  on  Sunday.  We  have  a  national  society 
called  the  We  See  To  You.  It  is  against  the  law  to 
purchase  cigarettes  in  one  state,  to  play  cards  in  an- 
other, and  to  kiss  one's  wife  publicly  in  a  third.  New 
York  has  forbidden  the  representation  of  the  Deity  on 
the  stage.  New  Jersey  recently  attempted  to  create  a 
censor  with  power  to  interdict  any  dramatic  perform- 
ance; and  Wisconsin  considered  placing  a  tape-measure 
in  the  hands  of  an  official  who  was  to  m.ake  sure  that 
"no  actress  or  other  female  person  shall  appear  on  the 
stage  unless  properly  covered  by  skirts  which  shall  ex- 
tend at  least  four  inches  below  the  knees." 

We  still  are  permitted  to  wear  cape-collars,  and,  as 
yet,  there  is  no  Society  for  the  Suppression  of  Sea- 
Food,  and  no  League  for  the  Prevention  of  Cucumbers 
Growing  on  the  Sabbath. — Channiug  Pollock  in  Phoio- 
phiy  Mayaciiie.  


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ILLICIT  STILLS. 

E  learn  from  the  Register  that  Danville  is  work- 
ing an  ingenious  device  to  defeat  prohibition  and 
supply  the  people  with  distilled  liquors.  Our 
contemporary  reports  the  revenue  men  as  stating  that 
the  Government  has  information  that  small  stills  for 
family  use  are  beirg  freely  used  in  that  dry  town.  The 
stills  nre  described  as  being  so  small  that  they  can  be 
operated  on  the  kitchen  rargc,  or  o\  er  an  oil  stove  in 
the  basement,  so  as  to  bring  them  within  reach  of  every 
dry  family.  "There  is  no  intimation,"  adds  our  con- 
temporary, "that  the  little  stills  are  being  made  here,  but 
that  liipior  is  being  manufactured  on  a  small  scale  and 
by  numerous  persons  is  the  candid  belief  of  the  men 
who  for  a  month  have  been  conducting  a  quiet  hi- 
vestigatioji  " 

The  coffee-pot  still  is  an  interesting  innovation,  and 
if  it  is  not  run  out  of  business,  we  expect  to  see  the 
numl)er  of  "coffee"  drinkers  in  X'irginia  greatly  in- 
creased. We  see  no  remedy  for  it  but  to  place  coffee 
and  coffee-pots  on  the  prohibition  list. — Herald,  New- 
port Xi'z^s,  J 'a. 

ISO 


LIQUOR   AND    DRESS. 

"T    IQUOR  is  no  more  dangerous  a  temptation  to  a 
1  V   boy  than  dress  is  to  a  girl,"  says  Dorothy  Dix, 
most    noted    of    wom.an's    page    writers,    in    the 
Louisville  Courier- Journal. 

"The  greatest  weakness  in  j:he  feminine  character  is 
the  love  of  dress.  The  greatest  temptation  to  women 
comes  from  dress.  It  makes  women  ruin  their  hus- 
bands with  their  extravagance  and  work  their  poor 
old  fathers  to  death  to  supply,  them  with  finery. 

"Above  all  other  causes,  it  is  the  cause  that  sends 
women  to  the  streets.  Three-fourths  of  the  girls  who 
go  wrong  do  not  do  it  for  love  of  some  man,  but  for 
love  of  clothes.  They  sell  their  souls  for  a  French 
confection.  The  one  passion  that  animates  their  hearts 
is  the  passion  for  gewgaws. 

Mothers  Are  to  Blame. 

"And,  strange  to  say,  the  mothers,  instead  of  trying 
to  eradicate  this  love  of  dress  in  their  daughters'  breasts 
and  teaching  them  what  a  danger  it  is,  cultivate  it. 
The  other  day  a  mother  told  me  with  pride  that  her 
little  girl  of  four  refused  to  put  on  a  dress  because 
it  had  been  bought  in  a  department  store  instead  of 
a  high-priced  baby  specialty  shop.  As  well  might  a 
father  boast  that  his  little  boy  in  the  Kindergarten 
could   distinguish  between   rye   and   Scotch   whisk3^ 

"Naturally,  it  will  be  said  that  you  cannot  put  the 
whole  world  of  women  into  a  drab  uniform  to  protect 
the  poor  weakling,  and  that  as  soon  as  she  gets  out 
of  school,  she  will  face  all  the  allurements  of  fashion 
and  find  the  devil  of  pretty  things  beckoning  to  her 
from  every  shop  window.  This  is  true,  but  the  girl 
v>ill  be  older,  and  better  able  to  resist  temptation. 

"Thoughtful  women  everywhere  are  anxious  to  help 
their  sex.  They  can  best  do  this  by  teaching  women 
not  to  bow  down  to  chiffons,  and  by  combating  the 
temptation  to  overdress.  This  reform  must  be  started 
by  the  women  at  the  top.  They  must  set  the  example, 
for  they  are  their  sisters'  keepers." 

The  prohibition  idea  of  solving  this  great  problem 
would  be  to  pass  a  law  forcing  all  women  to  wear  a 
calico  uniform,  and  use  the  police  power  to  have  the 
law  observed.  But,  even  as  in  the  case  of  the  liquor 
question,  the  clothes  problem  can  only  be  solved  by  the 
.individual  herself. 


PATENT  MEDICINES  SELL  WELL  IN  "DRY" 
TERRITORY— TONICS  AND  BITTERS. 

(From  report  of  Massachusetts  State  Board  of 
Health,  1902.) 

The  following  were  examined  for  the  purpose  of 
ascertaining  the  percenta'ge  of  alcohol  in  each.  Some 
of  them  have  been  recommended  as  temperance  drinks: 

Per  Cent  of 

Alcohol  (by 

volume) 

"Best"  Tonic 7.6 

Carter's  Physical  Extract 22.0 

Hooker's  VVigwam  Tonic 20.7 

Hoofland's  German  Tonic 29.3 

Hop  Tonic 7.0 

Howe's  Arabian  Tonic,  "not  a  rum  drink" 13.2 

Jackson's  Golden  Seal  Tonic 19.6 

Liebig  Company's  Cocoa  Beef  Tonic 23.2 

Mensman's   Peptonized   Beef   Tonic 16.5 

Parker's  Tonic,  "purely  vegetable,"  recommended 

for  inebriates  41.6 

Schcnk's  Sea  Weed  Tonic,  "entirely  harmless" 19.5 

Atwood's  Quinine  Tonic  Bitters. .' 29.2 

L.  T.  Atwood's  Jaundice  Bitters 22.3 

Moses  Atwood's  Jaundice  Bitters 17.1 

Baxter's  Mandrake  Bitters .   16.5 

Boker's  Stomach  Bitters 42.6 

Brown's  Iron   Bitters 19.7 

Burdock  Blood  Bitters 25.2 

Carter's   Scotch   Bitters 17.6 

Coltons    Bitters 27.1 

Coop's  White  Mountain  Bitters,  "not  an  alcoholic 

beverage"   6.0 

Drake's  Plantation  Bitters 33.2 

Flint's  Quaker  Bitters 21 .4 

Goodhue's   Bitters 16.1 

Greene's   Nervura 17.2 

Hartshorn's  Bitters 22.2 

Hooflander's   German    Bitters,   "entirely   vegetable 

and    free   from  alcoholic  stimulant" 25.6 

Hop  Bitters 12.0 

Hostettcr's   Stomach   Bitters 44.3 

Kaufman's   Sulphur   Bitter,   "contains   no  alcohol" 

(as  a  matter  of  fact,  it  contains  20.5  per  cent 

of  alcohol  and  no  sulphur) 20.5 

Kingsley's  Iron  Tonic 14.9 

Langley's  Bitters 18.1 

Liverpool's  Mexican  Tonic  Bitters..  22.4 

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Per  Cent  Alcohol 

Paine's  Celery  Compound 21 .4 

Pierce's  Indian  Restorative  Bitters 6.1 

Puritana   22.0 

Z.  Porter's  Stomach  Bitters 27.9 

Pulmonine    16.0 

Rush's  Bitters 35.0 

Richardson's  Concentrated  Sherry  Wine  Bitters..  47.5 

Secor's  Conshona   Bitters •. .  13.1 

Shonyo's  German  Bitters 21.5 

Job  Sweet's   Strengthening  Bitters 29.0 

Thurston's  Old  Continental  Bitters 11.4 

Warner's  Vinegar  Bitters,  "contains  no  spirit" 6.1 

Warner's  Safe  Tonic  Bitters 35.7 

Warren's  Bilious  Bitters 21.5 

Wheeler's  Tonic  Sherry  Wine  Bitters 18.8 

Wheat  Bitters 13.6 

Faith  Whitcomb's  -Nerve  Bitters 20.3 

Dr.  William's  Vegetable  Jaundice  Bitters 18.5 

Whiskol,    "a    non-intoxicating    stimulant,    whiskey 

without   its   sting" 28.2 

Golden  Liquid  Beef  Tonic,  "recommended  for  treat- 
ment of  alcoholic  habit" 26.5 

Ayer's  Sarsaparilla 26 . 2 

Thayer's  Compound  Extract  of  Sarsaparilla 21.5 

Hood's  Sarsaparilla 18.8 

Allen's  Sarsaparilla 13.5 

Dana's  Sarsaparilla 13.5 

Brown's   Sarsaparilla 13.5 

Corbett's  Shaker  Sarsaparilla 8.8 

Rad way's  Resolvent 7.9 

The  dose  recommended  upon  the  labels  of  the 
foregoing  preparations  varied  from  a  teaspoonful 
to  a  wineglass  full,  and  the  frequency  also  varied 
from  one  to  four  times  a  day,  "increased  as  needed." 

Also  the  following  "medicines  for  alcohol"  : 

Hoff's  Extract  of  Malt  and  Iron 5.24 

Peruna  28.59 

Vinol,  Wine  of  Cod  Liver  Oil 18.88 

Lydia  Pinkham's  Vegetable  Compound 20.61 

Dr.  Killmer's  Swamp  Root 7.32 

Dr.  Peter's  Kuriko 14.00 

These  are  the  favorite  substitutes  in  "dry" 
territory. 

How  do  they  compare  with  beer,  wine  and 
whiskey? 

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CLEAN-UP  OF  ILLICIT  DISTILLING  IS  PRO- 
POSED   BY    INTERNAL    REVENUE    COM- 
MISSIONER     ROPER.        GOVERNORS 
OF     "DRY"     STATES     URGED     TO 
AID    IN    STOPPING    SALE    OF 
LIQUOR    TO     SOLDIERS. 

WASHINGTON,  January  24.— An  appeal  to  Gov- 
ernors and  members  of  Conprre^s  to  support  a 
nation-wide  campaign  against  illicit  liquor  dis- 
tillers was  prepared  today  by  Internal  Revenue  Com- 
missioner Roper,  whose  reports  show  "moonshine"  traffic 
increasing  rapidly.  The  campaign  will  be  directed 
mainly  against  Southern  dry  states,  where  the  location 
of  most  of  the  military  camps  has  added  a  special  rea- 
son for  the  clean-up  movement. 

"Commissioner  Roper  will  ask  governors  to  furnish 
state  aecnts  to  co-operate  with  Government  inspectors 
in  putting  illegal  stills  out  of  business,  and  to  prosecute 
tlie  campaien  actively  during  the  next  two  months, 
ordinarily  the  busiest  period  of  the  year  for  moon- 
shiners. The  appeal  probably  will  be  issued  in  a  few 
days." 

The  above  headlines  and  introductory  paragraphs  are 
taken  from  the  Cincinnati  Enquirer  of  January  25.  1918. 

Only  22  of  tbe  48  states  of  the  Union  are  now  "dr>V 
and  yet  we  have  the  remarkable  spectacle  presented 
to  us  of  tbe  great  money  collecting  arm  of  the  Federal 
Government  admitting  its  inability  to  cope  witii  the 
ever-incroasirg  spread  of  "mooushiiiing"  throughout  the 
so-called  "dry"  states  of  the  South. 

We  are  told  that  the  Coinniissioner  of  Internal 
Revenue  will  "appeal  to  Governors  and  members 
of  Congress  to  support  a  nation-wide  campaign 
against  illicit  distilling." 

This  is  a  tacit  admission  that  with  all  the  power  of 
the  Federal  Govemmcnt  at  his  command  the  Commis- 
sioner of  Tntcmal  Revenue  cannot  control  the  "moon- 
shiners" of  the  Southern  "dr>'"  states. 

The  licensed  distillers  of  the  United  States  hold  to- 
day in  their  bonded  warehouses  about  IPo.OuO.Ooo  pal- 
Ions  of  distilled  spirits,  which  when  sold  will  pay  to 
the  Federal  treasury  a  tax  of  three  dollars  and  twenty 
cents  per  gallon,  or  an  aggregate  ov  $()<'iS.O<)0.otjO. 

Moonshiners  Wax  Prosperous. 

In  justice  to  the  lawful  distillers  of  tbe  countr>',  the 
V  ommissioncr  is  doing  all  he  can  to  suppre<;s  tbe  manu- 
facture of  spirits  made  in  violation  of  law,  which  pay 

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no  tax  and  produce  no  revenue  to  the  Federal  Govern- 
ment and  none  to  the  states,  and  which  are  crude  and 
unsanitary  in  character. 

There  were  destroyed  in  the  fiscal  'year  1915,  chiefly 
in  the  prohibition  states  of  the  South,  3,832  illicit  stills.' 

After  this  energetic  raid  in  1915,  there  were  destroyed 
in  the  same  territory-  in  1916,  3,286  illicit  stills. 

Since  the  increase  of  the  tax  on  spirits  from  $1.10 
per  gallon  to  $3.20  per  gallon,  the  incentive  to  illici't 
manufacture  has  been  given  a  tremendous  impetus. 
The  mountain  "moonshiner,"  even  with  his  crude  ap- 
paratus, can  get  about  four  gallons  of  firewater  out  of 
a  bushel  of  hillside  corn  worth  not  to  exceed,  at  present 
grain  quotations,  $1.75  per  bushel. 

It  is  not  worth  that  much  to  the  mountaineer,  be- 
cause to  realize  that  sum  he  would  have  to  transport 
his  grain  to  market  over  difficult  and  sometimes  im- 
passable roads. 

Four  gallons  of  "moonshine"  at  the  low  price  of  a 
dollar  a  quart  would  thus  yield  the  maker  about  $16.00 
from  a  bushel  of  grain. 

Uncle  Sam  Does  His  Best. 

With  this  temptation  to  easy  money  it  is  not  sur- 
prising that  the  strong  arm  of  the  Government  fails 
to  collect  its  dues  and  that  its  highest  excise  authority 
appeals  for  assistance  in  his  dilemma. 

The  Hon.  Daniel  C.  Roper,  the  present  Commissioner 
of  Internal  Revenue,  is  a  man  of  fine  attainments  and 
splendid  executive  ability.  But  he  cannot  accomplish 
the  impossible,  even  with  the  efficient  force  at  his  com- 
mand. 

There  is  no  complaint  in  this  instance  that  taxpaid 
liquors  are  being  shipped  from  one  state  to  another. 
They  are  being  illicitly  manufactured  in  plain  and  open 
violation  of  law  in  prohibition  states  and  mainly  in  the 
Southern  "dry"  states. 

If  the  excise  arm  of  the  Government  is  now  inef- 
fectual in  the  exercise  of  its  functions  when  22  states 
are  "dry,"  and  lawful  tax-paid  spirits  are  still  obtain- 
able, where  will  we  find  ourselves  when  the  present 
supply  of  lawful  tax-paid  spirits  is  exhausted  and  total 
prohibition  is  in  force  in  48  states? 

The  present  conditions  portray  in  hideous  outline  the 
assininity  and    impracticability  of  national   prohibition. 

It  is  evident  that  the  liquor  regulations  of  the  Federal 
Government  concerning  cantonments  are  much  more 
rigidly  observed  in  license  states  than  in  prohibition 
states.     The   Reed    "bone-dry"   law   prevents  the   ship- 

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ping  into  prohibition  states  of  wholesome,  tax-paid, 
well-matured  liquor,  but  it  encourages — within  the  limits 
of  those  states — the  manufacture  of  "wildcat"  "moon- 
shine" liquor. 

If  these  conditions  prevail  now  with  only  22  states 
under  prohibition,  what  will  they  be  if  all  the  states 
adopt  the  nation-wide  amendment? 

We  will  have  the  illicit  manufacturers  all  around 
us,  unchecked  and  unregulated. 

Even  our  present  military  force  would  not  be  equal 
to  the  suppression  of  this  illicit  traffic.  The  Govern- 
ment would  lose  about  six  hundred  million  dollars  a 
year,  which  would  have  to  be  shouldered  by  the  in- 
come taxpayers  of  the  country. — Joseph  Debar,  Presi- 
dent. National  Association  of  Distillers  and  II  holesale 
Dealers. 


PASS  A  LAW. 

Are  your  neighbors  very  bad? 

Pass  a  law! 
Do  they  smoke?     Do  they  chew? 
Are  thev   often  bothering  you? 
Don't  they  do  as  you  would  do? 

Pass  a  law! 

Are  your  wapes  awful  low? 

Pass  a  law! 
Are  the  prices  much  too  hiph? 
Do  the  wife  and  babies  cry? 
'Cause  the  turkevs  all  roost  high? 

Pass  a  law! 

When  M.  D.  finds  new  diseases, 

Pass  a  law! 
Ciot  the  mumps  or  enfermesis. 
Measles,  croup  or  "expertisus?" 
Lest  we  all  should  fly  to  pieces. 

Pass  a  law! 

Are  the  lights  aburning  red? 

I'ass  a  law! 
Paint  'em  green  or  paint  'em  white! 
Close  up  all  them  places  tight! 
My!     Our  town  is  such  a  si^zhtl 

Pass  a  law! 

No  matter  what  the  trouble  is. 

Pass  a  law! 
Goodness  sakes,  but  ain't  it  awful! 
My!      What  are  we  going  to  do? 
Almost  anything  ain't  lawful. 
And  the  jud^re  is  human,  too! 
Pass  a  law! 

—Pablu 
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WE  FIGHT  FOR  LIBERTY. 

MORE  than  80  per  cent  of  the  adult  males  of  the 
United  States  drink  some  form  of  liquors,  it  is 
contended,  because  they  like  to  drink,  and  they 
believe  that  they  have  a  right  to  drink.  A  less  than 
20  per  cent  minority,  composed  chiefly  of  those  whose 
unsupported  statements  claim  to  represent  the  majority, 
have  forced  the  prohibition  movement  in  this  country, 
it  is  said. 

The  average  citizen  who  drinks  beer,  wine  or  high- 
balls, attends  to  his  own  business,  doesn't  go  to  Wash- 
ington; he  doesn't  bother  to  write  to  his  United  States 
Senators  or  Congressmen ;  he  doesn't  even  write  to  his 
local  newspaper  protesting  against  the  attempted  in- 
vasion of  his  personal  liberty  in  a  manner  of  private 
conduct.  He  and  his  fellows  outnumber  the  prohibition 
supporters  five  to  one,  but  they  count  for  nothing  as 
ag-ainst  the  well-financed  campaign  of  the  persistent 
minority. 

Why  have  not  the  consumers  of  liquors  been  heard 
from?  Chiefly  because  they  are  like  men  in  the  time 
of  Noah,  who  didn't  think  that  there  would  be  much 
of  a  shower.  The  notion  that  the  Government  of  a 
great  nation,  founded  on  the  principles  of  individual 
liberty,  justice,  and  respect  for  human  rights,  should 
enact  a  law  depriving  its  citizens  of  th^ir  right  and 
liberties,  has  seemed  too  absurd   for  serious  attention. 

We  are  waging  war  against  the  Hohenzollern  dynasty. 
Shall  a  war  for  liberty  be  made  the  pretext  for  de- 
priving American  free  men  of  their  liberty? — From 
Brooklyn   (N.  Y.)   Citizen,  June  24,  1917. 


HITTING   CERTAIN   PREACHERS. 

MINISTERS  who  neglect  the  doctrine  of  brotherly 
love  and  cater  to  emotional  topics  are  severely 
criticized    by    the    Labor    World,    whose    advice 
is  to  preach  the  gospel  on  Sunday  and  leave  agitation 
for  week-days :  ■ 

"There  are  six  days  in  the  week  in  addition  to 
Sunday.  Surely  general  lecturers,  political  advocates, 
anti-saloon  league  paid  agents  and  all  such  like,  could 
be  engaged  to  hold  forth  their  views  on  this  or  that 
subject,  on  any  of  the  six  evenings,  and  let  the  pastor 
of  the  church  have  the  Sundays  to  tell  his  congregation 
about  the  eternal  blessings  that  are  promised  all  those 
human  beings  who  walk  and  commune  with  the  Great 
Teacher  on  earth  and  abide  by  his  admonitions." 
127 


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price. 

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of  the  day  concerning  the  prohibition 
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INDEX. 

A  PAGE 

Abbott,    Rev,    Lyman 85 

Adams,  John  Quincy 88 

Alcohol,    History    of 104-106 

Alcohol    Is    Indispensable 103 

Alcohol,    Dr.    Jacobi    Defends .  . , 71 

Alcohol,  Medicinal  Value  of 72 

Allies,    Prohibition   Hurts    Our 32 

Anti-Saloon    League 97,   112,  114 

Anti-Saloon    League    Map 59 

Anti-Saloon   League  and   Standard  Oil 65-66 

Army   Bill,  "Drys"   Hold  Up 82 

ARMY,  USE   OF  LIQUOR  IN 74-83 

British  Troops  Buy  U.  S.   Whiskey 74 

Wine  for   the    French   Army 75 

Empey    Defends    Liquor 75 

Private   Peat   Follows    Suit 76 

Ale    in    England 76 

United  States  Finds  Drink  Tales  False 77 

Pershing  Defends   "Sammies" 78-79 

Alcohol,    a    War    Factor 79 

Traitorous    Prohibition    80 

Warring  Nations    Drink 80 

Wine  Crop  to  Restore  France 81 

England   Is   Still   "Wet" 81 

Wine — A  Military  Necessity 82 

"Drys"    Hold   Up   Army    Bill 82 

Let  Army  and   Navy   Alone 83 

American    Officers    in    France 83 

Democracy   and   Hard   Cider 83 

B 

Bailey,  "Joe,"  Former  U.  S.  Senator 17-18 

Bailey,    Warren   Worth,    of    Pennsylvania 66 

Blackie,    Prof.    John   Stuart 86 

Bowlen,   Jas.   W.,  of  Indianapolis 62 

Brady,    Rev.    Cyrus   Townsend 86 

Brandy  and  Aspirin 71 

Brisbane,    Arthur    85 

British  Troops,   U.   S.   Whiskey   for 74 

Building   and    Loan    Associations SO 

C 

California   Votes   in    1918 6 

Catholic   Church,  Why  It   Opposes  Prohibition 102,  117 

Catholic    Position,    The 60 

Chandler,  Walter  N.,   Representative,  of  New  York 14 


PAGi 

Church    Members     50,  54 

Cider,    Hard 83 

Cigarettes,    Barred   in    Kansas 100,   101 

Colorado    and    Prohibition Ill 

Commandment,   Eleventh,  "Thou   Shalt  Not   Drink" 47 

COMPENSATION   OR   CONFISCATION 94-99 

Uncle   Sam    Should    Pay    Distillers 94-95 

D.    Clarence   Gibbony 96 

Backed  by   Uncle   Sam 97 

Justice    Demands    Payment 97 

"The    Penny    Grabbers" 97 

Compensation    in    England 98 

"Ignorant    or    Dishonest" 98 

Confiscation    un-American     .      99 

Corley,   Rev.   Geo.    Eliot 87 

Curtis,  Cyrus  H.   W.,  on   National    Prohibition .  .  .      25 

D 

D'Abernon.    Lord,   Chairman    of   English    Liquor   Board 81 

Harrow,    Clarence    88 

Debar,   Joseph    108 

Deficit,  Who  Will  Make  Up 48 

Delaware,    Ratification   in 4 

Dickens,    Chas 88 

Distillers,    Uncle   Sam   Should    Pay 94-95 

r>ivorces     52-53 

Dix,  Dorothy,  on  Licjuor  and  Dress 121 

Donahoc,   Bishop,  of  Wheeling,   VV.    Va 90 

Drinkers — 80%    of    Population .127 

Drugs    and    Prohibition .7 .\    115 

"Dry"    Law    Increases    Drug   Use 115 

Dyer,    Representative,    of    Missouri....  14 

E 

ICmpcy    Defends    Liquor 75 

England,    .Me    in 76 

[•Episcopal    Clergy    Not   "Dry" 106 

England,    Compensation    in 98 

England,   How   .She  Regulates  Liquor   Industry 81 

English    Officers    Drink 23,  U7 

Emerson,    Ralph    Waldo 86 

F 

Florida    Votes    in    1918 6 

Food    Bill.  Why  It  Was  Held  Vp 1 12.  114 

France,  Wine  Crop  to  Restore 81 

French    .\rmy.    Wine    for 75 

I'rench    dfVieers    at    Lunch 52 


Gallagher,  Representative,  of  Illinois 14 

Gallivan,    Representative,   of   Boston 117 

Gaynor,    Judge    85 

Georgia,    Prohibition    in ' 100 

Germany     80 

German    Prisoners     116 

Gibbons,    Cardinal     39,  91 

Gibbony,   D,   Clarence,  on   Compensation 96-97 

Gill,  Michael  J.,   Congressman 87 

Gompers,    Samuel     63,   66,  85 

Graham,   Geo.    I.,   Representative,   of   Philadelphia 15 

Graham,   Whidden,  on  National   Prohibition 21,   107 

Great   Men    and   Temperance 84-92 

H 

Hardvifick,    Senator,    on    Prohibition 29 

Harrison,    Carter   H.,  on    National    Prohibition i2 

Harrison,   Rev.    Geo.   H 90 

Harty,   Archbishop,   on    Prohibition 46 

Hobson,    Richmond    P 91 

Holmes,    Oliver    Wendell 89 

Home  Rule,   Goodbye i7 

I 

ILLICIT  DISTILLING   Ill,  116,  120,  124-126 

Illiteracy      49 

Income   Taxes,   Amount    Paid 59 

Insanity    51,53 

Iowa    "Wet"    on    Popular    Vote 108 

Italy      , 80 

J 

Jacobi,    Dr.,    Defends    Alcohol 71 

Japanese    Officers    Drink 23 

Jefferson,    Thos 89 

Juvenile    Delinquents 55 


Kahn,    Representative,   of   California 14 

Kaiser,    a    Prohibitionist 10 

Kansas,    Bar    Cigarettes    in 101 

Kansas   Versus   License   States    (Statistics) 49-55 

Kentucky,    Ratification    in 4 

Kenyon,    Senator   Wm.    S.,   of  Iowa 77 

Koren,    John 87 

Kresge    and    Prohibition 113 


L  PAGE 

LABOR    FIGHTS    PROHIBITION 62-70 

"Dry"    Laws    Hit    Workers 62-63 

Gompers    on    Prohibition 63 

Industries    Affected    64 

Anti-Saloon    League  and   Standard   Oil 65-66 

Remedy    for    Intemperance 66 

Who    Foots    "Dry"    Bills 66 

Liquor  and  Accidents 67 

Ten   Million  Mouths  to   Feed  .^ 67 

Unemployment   and    Low   Wages 68 

Average    Cost   of   Drink 68 

State    Labor    Federations 68 

Who  Will  Get  the  Money 69 

Two  Million   Oppose  Prohibition 69 

Sickness,    Poverty    Cause    of 70 

Preacher- Politicians     70 

Prohibition    Forces    Up   Taxes 70 

Labor    (Statistics)     51 

Lea,    Representative,    of    California 14 

Lincoln   Advised   Use  of    Liquor 41-42 

Liquor    and    Accidents 67 

Liquor   Consumption    8 

Liquor    and    Crime 57-58 

Liquor    and    Dress 121 

Liquor,    Empey    Defends 75 

r.iquor   Industry,    Magnitude   of  the 9 

Liquor  and    Insanity 56 

I^iquor    and    Poverty 56 

Liquor,    Private   Peat    Praises 76 

Liquor    Use   on    Increase 99 

Liquors,   Why   Vou   Pay  More   for 43-45 

Mc 

McArthur,  Congressman,  from  "Dry"  Oregon 18 

McCumber.   U.    S.   Senator,   of   North    Dakota 72 

M 

Madison,    James    90 

Maine,   "Dry"    Law   Costly   in 93 

Maine,    Prohibition   in 93 

Maine   Votes    "Wet" 4 

Manning,  f ardinal    85 

Maryland,  Ratification  in 4 

Massachusetts    Cities    Vote    "Wet" 119 

Matthews,    Rev.    Hovey 60 

Medicine,  Patent  Alcoholic  Strength.  .  .122-123 

Meeker,  Jacob    E.,   Congressman 92 

Methodist    Church    78-80 


PAGE 

Mills,   John   Stuart 86 

Mississippi,    Ratification    in 4 

Monahan,   Michael    91 

Montana,    Ratification    in 4 

Moonshining    58,  116,  120,  124-126 

Moore,  J.   Hampton,  of  Pennsylvania 89 

Munsterberg,    Prof.    Hugo 89 

Murders     54 

Myers,   Professor  VVm.   Starr,  of  Princeton 135 

N 

NATIONAL    PROHIBITION    13-40 

Vote   on    Ratification 4 

National    Prohibition    Amendment,   Text   of 13-15 

Invades  States  Rights ; 15 

"Dry"    New    York    Sun    Protests 15 

A    Matter   of   Money 16 

Political    Trickery     16 

"Joe"    Bailey   Opposes  Amendment 17-20 

Favors    Local    Option 20 

x\fteT   Prohibition — What?    21 

More   Like  216,000   "Dry"   Lobbyists 21 

Would   Cost   from  Three  to  Five  Billion 22-23 

The  Public  Has  Not  Spoken 24 

Abuse  of  the    Constitution 25 

Would   Create  49   Nations 26 

Touch    of    Bolshevikism 27 

Ratification     ; 27 

Will   Supreme   Court  Decide? 28 

Results    of    National    Prohibition 28 

Senator  Hardwick  on  Prohibition 29 

May  Give  Negro   Vote 30 

The    Minority    Rules 31 

Prohibition    and    Slavery 31 

It  Would   Hurt   Our  Allies 32 

Hard  Times   Coming 32 

National    Prohibition    Unnecessary 33 

Financial    Results  of  Prohibition 34 

Church  and   Politics 35 

Amendment    Is    Vicious 35 

Legislatures   and    the   People 36 

Suggests  State  Rights  Party 36 

Goodbye    Home    Rule : 37 

A    Sound    I*rovtsion 38 

Let   the   People   Rule 38 

An    Anti-War    Measure 38 

Cardinal    Gibbons    on    Prohibition 39 

Democracy    in    Danger 39 


PAOt 

Can   They  Answer? 40 

"Passing   the    Buck" 40 

Even    Our   Clothing 40 

Col.   Henry  Watterson  on   Prohibition 40 

Navy  and  Army 83 

Negro,  May  Give  Vote  to 30 

New  Hampshire,  Prohibition  in 70 

North   Carolina,   3,500   Illicit    Stills   in 107 

North  Dakota,  Ratification  in 4 

O 

Ohio,    Compared    With    Maine V.' 

Ohio,   "Drys"  Turn   Down  Red   Cross 60 

Ohio  Votes  in   1918 6 

P 

Paupers   50,  5: 

Peat,    Private,    Praises    Liquor 76 

Pershing   Defends   "Sammies" 78-79 

Pollock,    Channing,    on    Prohibition 120 

Preacher-Politicians     127 

Price    of    Liquors — Why    Increased 43-45 

Princeton   Turns   Down   Billy  Sunday 45 

Prisoners    51,5: 

Prohibition   and    Drugs , 7:- 

Prohibition    Logic    lOS 

Prohibition,   Men  Who  Did   Not  Advocate 84 

Prohibition     States,    History 7 

Prohibition.    What    Is    Behind 11 

Prohibition,  Would  "Drys"  Pay  for ''"^ 

R 

Red    Cross,    Contributions    to -""^ 

Red    Cross,    "Drys"   Turn    Down 60 

Reed   Law,    Beating   the 6 

Rhode  Island  Votes  in    1918 6 

Robinson,  Beverly,   ^L  D.,  of  New   York 72 

Root,   Hon.   Elihu,  on   Prohibition 12 

Roper,    Internal    Revenue    Commissioner 124-126 

Russell,   Bishop    87 

Russia,   When    It    Went    Bone-Dry Ill 

S 

Savings  Accounts   49.  55 

Seattle.  U.  S.  Control   for 11  Jt 

Sheppard    Bill 13-15 

South  Carolina,   Ratification  in •* 

South  Dakota,   Prohibition  in 115 

Standard   Oil   and   Anti-Saloon    Leagrue 65-66 

States.    Popular    Vote    in 5-6 

State    Rights,    Destroys. . 


PAGE 

Stevens,  Thaddeus    88 

Sunday.    "Dollar    Bill" 92 

Sunday  Turned  Down  by  Princeton 45 

Supreme    Court,    Will    It    Decide? 28 

Switzerland,    Compensation    in 96 

T 

Taft,    Wm.    H 90 

Taxes,  "Dry"  Law  Increases 69-70,  9.^ 

Tennessee,    Moonshine   in 58 

Tennessee    and    Prohibition 102 

Ten   Questions  for  Prohibitionists 107 

Texas,    Ratification    in 4 

Theaters,   Would   Close  All 72 

TOBACCO 

Urges   Ban   on   Tobacco ' 100 

May    Prohibit    Tobacco    Next 100 

Tobacco   in    Danger 101 

After  Liquor  Comes  Tobacco 101 

Bar   Cigarettes   in    Kansas 101 

Tolstoy,    Count    Leo 88 

Treloar,   Sir  Wm.,   of   London,   England 86 

Tuttle,  Bishop    87 

V 

Vance,    Lee    J 90 

Virginia    and    Crime 1 06 

Virginia,    Drunkenness    in 10 

Virginia   Elects    Liberal    Governor 61 

Virginia,   Ratification   in 4 

W 

War  Debts  Paid  by   Liquor  Industry T 61 

Washer,    Benjamin    S 117 

Washington  Advised  Use  of  Liquor 41-42 

Wasson,  Dr.  W.  R.,  of  New  York 118 

Watterson,    Col.    Henry 40,  89 

West  Virginia,  Reed    Law   in 4 

"Wet"  States  Give  Most 59 

Whiskey    for    Diabetes 72 

Wiley,   Dr.,   on    Prohibition 61 

Williams,   John    Sharp,    Senator 88 

Wilson,    Woodrow    114 

Windle,   C.  A.,   Spikes  "Dry"    Lies 56-58,  73,  92 

Wine   for  the   French  Army 75 

Wine  a  Military   Necessity 82 

Wine  for  Sacrament  Unlawful 117 

Wisconsin — Why   Superior   Voted   "Wet" 109 

Women,   Dress  Temptation    to 121 

Wyoming    Votes    in    1918 6 


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